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While many questions remain unanswered, and communities across the state are only in the beginning stages of recovery, it is becoming more clear just how devastating and fatal the weather event
Developers launch luxury home projects in Galveston as tourism surges, even as the housing market faces high supply and climate risks.
Once a dream destination for vacation homes and investment properties, the island city has become a buyer’s market. “We’ve never seen this amount of inventory sitting for this amount of time,” Galveston Realtor Shelby Forbert told KHOU News last month.
About 23 girls are missing after torrential rains flooded the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, washing away cabins and buildings at Camp Mystic.
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Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they cause catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance.
Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.
According to officials with the Texas Department of Transportation, crews working to dredge the area around the Port Bolivar ferry landing will be working on the 4th of July. However, this work is not expected to impact wait times or boat operations over the holiday weekend.
A fire-damaged hydrotreater at Marathon Petroleum's Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas will remain shut until September, sources familiar with plant operations said on Thursday.