Your current location:HOME >style >The government wants to buy their flood 正文
TIME:2024-05-21 11:24:50 Source: Internet compilationEdit:style
HOUSTON (AP) — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes th
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.
Strictly star Giovanni Pernice's former partner Rose Ayling2024-05-21 11:03
Missing Chinese exchange student found cold and scared in Utah2024-05-21 10:57
'Significant concerns' for man missing for a month2024-05-21 10:44
7 students injured after crash near La Habra high school2024-05-21 10:40
Cruise worker 'murders newborn son on board ship': Shocked co2024-05-21 10:35
Government warned against repealing Oranga Tamariki's Treaty commitments2024-05-21 10:10
Hong Kong's domestic workers harness their voices through poetry2024-05-21 10:08
Americans have just a few days left to pay their income taxes2024-05-21 09:56
Ben Whishaw lights up the Croisette as he joins his co2024-05-21 09:51
Russia's nuclear arsenal: How big is it, and who controls it?2024-05-21 09:11
Kosovo prepares a new draft law on renting prison cells to Denmark after the first proposal failed2024-05-21 11:15
Brazil's new national minimum wage comes into force2024-05-21 11:08
Unemployment drops to 7.9% in quarter ending in July2024-05-21 10:23
Call for stronger trail grading standards after mountain biker's death2024-05-21 10:18
Independent UN experts urge Yemen’s Houthis to free detained Baha'i followers2024-05-21 10:01
Ombudsman decries lack of change in prisons since Covid2024-05-21 09:42
Hong Kong bids farewell to independent bookstore Mount Zero2024-05-21 09:37
Explore Taiwan's Treasure Hill Artist Village2024-05-21 09:13
Baby Reindeer's real2024-05-21 08:55
New police search for missing mum Samantha Murphy in bushland in Victoria2024-05-21 08:49