The government wants to buy their flood
Release time：2024-05-21 19:33:56 Source：Culture Channels news portal
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.
- Previous：Liverpool confirms Arne Slot as Jurgen Klopp's replacement
- Next：Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership
Related articles
- Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 26
- China Shares Experiences in Fighting Against COVID
- ACWF Holds Forum to Share Women's Efforts, Achievements in Battle Against Poverty
- ACWF President Stresses People
- The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
- ACWF Adds New Group Member
- ACWF President Urges Long
- ACWF Vows to Mobilize Women to Play Active Role in Winning Fight Against Poverty
- Baby Reindeer's real
- Huang Xiaowei Joins Panel Discussion of 3rd Session of 13th CPPCC National Committee
- Lynn Williams breaks NWSL goal
- ACWF Calls on Women, Families to Stop Wasting Food, Promote Thrifty Living
- ACWF Calls on Women, Families to Stop Wasting Food, Promote Thrifty Living
- Delegations parade into stadium during opening ceremony of 4th Asian Para Games in Hangzhou
- Revealed: Brit tourist, 19, subjected to sex attack in Majorca 'was gang
- Summer Vacation Campaign of Caring for Children Launched
- Jiang to bear China's flag at Hangzhou Asian Para Games closing ceremony
- MCA, ACWF Promote Harmony Within Families
- Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons
- ACWF President Stresses Women's Wisdom and Strength in Anti
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by The government wants to buy their flood ,Culture Channels news portal sitemap