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What Happens When Flood Maps Don’t Illustrate True Risk

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:29:48 +0000

3/25/25 – Eight years after Hurricane Harvey and a massive region-wide effort to update flood maps, FEMA still features maps on its website based on decades-old data that don’t come close to showing true flood risk. The old maps cause confusion among buyers who may not understand their limitations. And that helps developers pursue and […]

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Tree Muggers for Tree Huggers: The Irony of Royal Pines

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:15:53 +0000

The “Tree Muggers” at the new Royal Pines subdivision in Montgomery County at the north end of West Lake Houston Parkway continue their relentless and remorseless destruction of trees. How ironic considering that the name implies the developer will market homes to Tree Huggers! Perhaps they: Feel the name will blind customers to the reality. […]

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