"HOUSTON — Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast some 175 miles (280 kilometers) from Houston, but the nation’s fourth-largest city has never needed a direct strike from a catastrophic storm to flood.

Regularly inundated by floodwaters ever since its settlement in the mid-1800s, Houston looked on warily even before Harvey roared ashore. In Houston, the chronic deluges that have repeatedly swamped its neighborhoods are getting worse and more costly — not just for locals, but for federal taxpayers.

An Associated Press analysis of government data found last year that if the county that is home to Houston were a state, it would have ranked in the top five or six in every category of repeat flood losses. That’s defined as any property with two or more losses in a 10-year period each totaling at least $1,000."

The Associated Press had the story August 28, 2017. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Why America Still Hasn’t Learned the Lessons of Katrina" (Politico) [3]

"Trump Rolls Back Obama-Era Flood Standards For Infrastructure Projects" (NPR: 8/16/2017) [4]

"Why Houston Is So Prone To Devastating Floods" (Huffington Post) [5]

"Five Reasons Houston Is Especially Vulnerable to Flooding" (Wall Street Journal) [6]

"The Great Lie of American Flood Risk" (Wired) [7]

"Hurricane Harvey Is Going to Slam Into Texas and the National Flood Insurance Program Is a Mess" (Mother Jones) [8]