Month: August 2017

Thousands of people who survived the worst of Hurricane Harvey in Texas are now fleeing for their lives after the authorities opened sluice gates to relieve the city of Houston. Willis Breaux and his wife, Susan, had intended to wait out the storm in their home in Beech Creek. Then the Army Corps of Engineers…

Jose Jimenez worked for 43 years to achieve his American dream, leaving Mexico as a young man with nothing to come to Texas, build a career and fund a home, a family and a future. In a matter of minutes, so much of what he had worked for was lost yesterday as the San Jacinto…

The fate of thousand of trapped Texans lay in the hands of an increasingly desperate rescue operation today as Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath refused to let up. On the 12th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest natural disasters to strike the United States, southern Texas and parts of Louisiana faced a…

If Florida gleaned anything from Hurricane Andrew, the intensely powerful storm that tore a deadly trail of destruction across Miami-Dade County almost exactly 25 years to the day that Hurricane Harvey barrelled into the Texas coastline, it was that living in areas exposed to the wrath of Mother Nature can come at a substantial cost. At…

At least eight people have died and tens of thousands more remain stranded as floodwaters continue to rise in Houston, with officials admitting that they have been overwhelmed by Hurricane Harvey’s 11 trillion-gallon downpour. Army engineers, concerned that two big dams might fail, opened the floodgates to relieve the pressure, potentially sacrificing thousands of homes…