Current location:Cultural Current news portal > travel
The government wants to buy their flood
Cultural Current news portal2024-05-21 07:27:29【travel】3People have gathered around
IntroductionHOUSTON (AP) — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes th
HOUSTON (AP) — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes that 60-year-old Tom Madigan owns on the San Jacinto River, he didn’t think twice about whether to fix them. He hired people to help, and they got to work stripping the walls, pulling up flooring and throwing out water-logged furniture.
What Madigan didn’t know: The Harris County Flood Control District wants to buy his properties as part of an effort to get people out of dangerously flood-prone areas.
Back-to-back storms drenched southeast Texas in late April and early May, causing flash flooding and pushing rivers out of their banks and into low-lying neighborhoods. Officials across the region urged people in vulnerable areas to evacuate.
Like Madigan’s, some places that were inundated along the San Jacinto in Harris County have flooded repeatedly. And for nearly 30 years, the flood control district has been trying to clear out homes around the river by paying property owners to move, then returning the lots to nature.
Address of this article:http://bosniaandherzegovina.arandomquote.com/html-46e199765.html
Very good!(2251)
Related articles
- Travis Kelce downs whiskey shot on slice of bread at Kelce Jam without Taylor Swift
- CPC Central Committee Holds Consultative Meeting on Reform Plan of Party, State Institutions
- Africa seeks to make climate needs known on global stage
- Agricultural technicians guided farmers in scientific management of wheat fields
- Rangers are undefeated at .500 to keep World Series champs from a losing record with Bochy
- Trump's historic hush money trial begins with jury selection
- China's National Legislature Holds 2nd Plenary Meeting of Annual Session
- Industry sees OpenAI's Sora as a game changer
- 'The Apprentice,' about a young Donald Trump, premieres in Cannes
- Xi Meets Putin in Moscow
Popular articles
Recommended
Biden says Brown v. Board of Education ruling was about more than education
Ministry: US practice disrupts normal business activities
Ding, O'Sullivan among first inductees to inaugural World Billiards Hall of Fame
Gaps found in battle against climate crisis
Siblings trying to make US water polo teams for Paris Olympics
Photovoltaic power generation boosts green development in rural areas
Europe's far
China's National Legislature Holds 2nd Plenary Meeting of Annual Session
Links
- Young Laotians held at Myanmar casino fearful of fighting nearby — Radio Free Asia
- Smoke seen as ANA flight carrying about 200 people lands safely in northern Japan, public TV says
- Paris Hilton reveals her daughter London, 5 months, resembles her sister Nicky Hilton
- Alexa Chung puts on a leggy display in a sexy silk co
- Alexa Chung puts on a leggy display in a sexy silk co
- Channing Tatum transforms into tech billionaire in Blink Twice trailer
- German retirees will get an inflation
- Alexa Chung puts on a leggy display in a sexy silk co
- North Korea sends a delegation to Iran in a growing effort to break its diplomatic isolation
- Slovakia's government approves controversial overhaul of public broadcasting