Houston flooding is a perfect storm of climate change and bad urban planning

Grist
By Katie HerzogMay 31, 2016, 3:54 pm328 pts
Flooding in Texas killed six over Memorial Day weekend, bringing the death toll from the state’s unprecedented floods this year to at least 14. The area surrounding Houston has been hit especially hard: On Sunday, about 2,600 inmates were evacuated from two southeastern Texas prisons endangered by high…

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