Hurricane Harvey has been called a “500-year flood” — a flood event that has a one-in-500 chance of occurring in any given year in that location. Hundreds of thousands of people live in flood-prone cities such as Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and New York. Here’s a look at how 500-year floods could affect them.
As Houston just began to recover from record rainfall, Harvey — which had veered out into the Gulf of Mexico — came ashore again at dawn on Wednesday near the Texas-Louisiana border.
By Wednesday afternoon, the storm had weakened and moved into Louisiana. where officials said the threat of flooding seemed to be on the wane.
Mobile kitchen units, truckloads of tools and thousands of supplies are ready to help, but there is one problem: They are hundreds of miles away from Houston.
For those affected by Harvey, every day blurs into the same long surreal state of being physically wet, of feeling, hearing, smelling and even tasting water that was not only flooding roads and invading homes but inundating people.
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