At least one in five Texans currently live in floodplains. And the percentage is probably higher than that given how sporadically floodplain maps get updated. Against that backdrop, San Jacinto ...

As part of the next update of the Texas State Flood Plan, the San Jacinto Regional Flood-Planning Group (SJRFPG) recently ...

The remnants of Pacific Hurricane Polo will bring heavy rain to Texas in the next four days and produce a slight-to-moderate ...

Harris County just passed the largest tax increase in its history. But it provides very little transparency in how it spends ...

At the 9/22/26 Meeting of the Harris County Community Flood Resilience Task Force, Harris County Engineering discussed its ...

At Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger’s town hall meeting in Kingwood on 9/22/26, Tom Broad, the chair of the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 10 Board, gave an update on the ...

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 ...

9/19/26 – On September 1, 2026, Dr. Anna Weiss became the new executive director of the Bayou Land Conservancy (BLC), one of the leading conservation groups in the Houston region. Dr. Weiss replaces ...

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.

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 ...