Not exact matches
President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey
damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed
Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged
homes.
As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating
Houston, killing more than 70 people, and
damaging almost 200,000
homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.
The Greater
Houston Builders Association estimates that Hurricane Harvey and its relentless rain destroyed at least 30,000
homes; thousands more sustained significant
damage.
Just six weeks after floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey
damaged thousands of
homes in
Houston,
home sales there have rebounded.
About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the
damage may be lower than for places like
Houston, Texas, with large
homes and expensive industrial facilities.
Postal worker Lonzell Rector makes his rounds among flood
damaged debris from
homes that lines the street in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, in
Houston.
Now, he is assembling volunteers from throughout the Barrington area, dubbing the charitable outreach as «Barrington Regional Hurricane Relief,» for a trip Nov. 10 through Nov. 19 to
Houston, where local volunteers will work to rebuild
damaged homes with new drywall, trim and molding after Hurricane Harvey struck the area in late August.
Flood -
damaged carpet sits in front of a
Houston home in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Sept. 6, 2017.
TOPSHOT - Members of the Olson family remove debris and
damaged items from their father's
home in the Twin Oaks Estate after Hurricane Harvey caused widespread flooding in
Houston, Texas on August 31, 2017.
One in eight
homes sold in the six months following Hurricane Harvey sustained
damage during the floods, according to a
Houston Chronicle analysis.
The
damage from Hurricane Harvey has affected more than 100,000
homes, leaving many
Houston residents in need of shelter, food, and clean water.
One in eight
homes sold in the six months following Hurricane Harvey sustained
damage during the floods, according to a
Houston Chronicle analysis.
Todd Middleton pauses while talking about the
damage to his Norchester - area
home, caused by Hurricane Harvey, in
Houston.
The
Houston Association of REALTORS ® launched a new program enabling members, property owners, landlords, and property managers to post
homes that they agree to make available on a temporary basis to those displaced by storm
damage and flooding.
While experts estimate that flood
damage from Harvey could total $ 35 billion — about the same as Katrina — one big difference is the more limited number of
homes covered by flood insurance in
Houston.
Selling your flooded house has never been faster or easier and we pay cash for water
damaged homes in
Houston!
They saw an opportunity after Hurricane Harvey to buy
damaged homes on the cheap in the
Houston Real Estate Market.