However, no one is dredging yet. And everyone wishes that could happen sooner rather than later. But still, the Board is far ahead of where they were at this time last month. And within the next month ...

On September 1, 2026, Dr. Anna Weiss became the new head of the Bayou Land Conservancy (BLC), one of the leading conservation groups in the Houston region.

9/18/2026 – Steelwork has started on the Northpark Bridge over the UnionPacific Railroad tracks and Loop 494. When complete, the bridge will form a critical link in the first all-weather evacuation ...

Houston District E City Council Member Fred Flickinger will hold a town hall meeting on September 22 at the Kingwood Community Center from 5-8 PM.

"Causes of flooding summarized" is part of my continuing effort to boil down more than 2 million words in 3100 posts since Hurricane Harvey into short summaries of key points.

Today is the 18th anniversary of Hurricane Ike, whose eye passed directly over Kingwood. It got me wondering. How many storms have caused significant flooding somewhere in the seven-county ...

Looking back at the last 100 years, today is the statistical peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. However, this year will also set a record for the latest "first hurricane" in recorded ...

MoCo allows fill in the 500-year floodplain, but Harris doesn’t. And Harris requires homes to be built at the 500-year flood elevation, whereas MoCo requires only the 100-year. Here are the MoCo ...

9/16/2026 – In my previous post, I summarized causes of flooding. I grouped 83 contributing factors into three main categories: nature, things humans do, and things humans fail to do. In my continuing ...

The Harris County Community Resilience Flood Task Force (CFRTF) has passed a resolution opposing the 5300+ acre proposed Scarborough/San Jacinto Preserve development near the confluence of the San ...