Everyone Knew Houston’s Reservoirs Would Flood — Except for the People Who Bought Homes Inside Them
Everyone Knew Houston’s Reservoirs Would Flood — Except for the People Who Bought Homes Inside Them
by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal, Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, and Al Shaw, ProPublica, October 12, 2017
Detailed exploration of some of the complexities the Houston region faces as it imagines, and builds, “life after Harvey”
Every summer in my childhood my parents took me and my sister to beaches in Maine, mountain lakes in our home state of New Hampshire, and our uncle’s pool in Massachusetts just over the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border. Once the last towel was unloaded from the car, we’d rip off the clothing covering our bathing suits and race to water as if it was simply a mirage, wavering and threatening to disappear.