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  Houston Wilderness Turns To "Super Trees" and Old Golf Courses To Fight Flooding and Climate Change

  October 15 at 4:30 a.m.

  Houston Wilderness president Deborah January-Bevers knew that the coronavirus was going to turn Houston upside down when Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner cancelled the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in early March. When she heard the news, the local environmental nonprofit was just wrapping up a tree planting event with NRG...

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  Houston Gets Dumped On Again

  September 23 at 8:01 a.m.

  So the coastal areas were supposed to be hard hit by Tropical Storm Beta but inland would be pretty much OK. And the rain was to move away from the southwest parts of Houston and the harder hit suburbs in Missouri City and Pearland on Tuesday night and move to...

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  Flood Warning Extended For Harris County As Beta Shifts Toward Northeast Houston

  September 22 at 7:39 p.m.

  In a Tuesday evening weather update, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said that while Tropical Depression Beta continues to move slowly out of our region, it will likely keep dropping rain on the Houston area for “about 12 more hours." After south and southwest Houston were battered by heavy rainfall Monday...

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  Streets and Highways Flood Across Houston [UPDATED]

  September 22 at 12:37 p.m.

  Tropical Storm Beta has been pouring down rain across the Houston area since Monday night, and its rain bands will continue to cause potentially heavy rainfall for at least the next 24 hours as Beta moves east at about 2 miles per hour. “They’re dropping water, sometimes 2 to 3...

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  Local Leaders Say Beta Shouldn't Be Catastrophic, But Flash Flooding Remains A Threat [UPDATED]

  September 21 at 4:08 p.m.

  On Monday afternoon, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo gave a quick update on the fast-approaching Tropical Storm Beta, which is set to make landfall on the Texas coast near Matagorda Bay about 82 miles southwest of Houston Monday night. Hidalgo told county residents to be wary of potential pockets of...

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  Tropical Storm Beta Will Bring Lots of Rain, But It's Not Harvey

  September 21 at 7:03 a.m.

  As of Sunday evening, predictions were that Tropical Storm Beta would be scooting its way to a landfall along the coastal bend of Texas Monday afternoon. Beta remains a relatively slow moving storm, but it has not intensified and it should weaken rather quickly once it moves inland. As a...