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A year after Hurricane Harvey, some Texans are using outdated flood risk maps to rebuild

  • Written by Wanyun Shao, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Alabama
Businesses in Humble, Texas, part of metropolitan Houston, surrounded by floodwater from Hurricane Harvey, August 29, 2017.AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File

One year ago, on August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck Texas – the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005. Harvey dumped record-breaking rain and...

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