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Imelda’s Third Anniversary Brings Clearcutting into Focus

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:49:44 +0000

Today is the third anniversary of the day Tropical Storm Imelda flooded approximately 600 homes in Elm Grove and North Kingwood Forest. A major contributing factor: clearcutting 268 acres immediately upstream. Here are several pictures and videos that people sent me. Before the clearcutting, these areas had not flooded – even during Hurricane Harvey. Lessons […]

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GLO Announces Homeowner Assistance, Reimbursement Programs for Imelda

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:11:31 +0000

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has announced locations of regional Homeowner Assistance and Reimbursement Programs (HARP) offices in advance of the application release for help from Tropical Storm Imelda. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) allocated $137.8 million of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). […]

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Rosemay Fain’s Harvey and Imelda Stories

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:13:39 +0000

Rosemary Fain and Archie Savage live on three acres in Magnolia Estates, in far northeast Harris County just a block from the Liberty County line, about halfway between Luce Bayou and the San Jacinto East Fork. They’re more than two miles from each and never flooded before the development of Colony Ridge, one mile north. […]

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Imelda Assistance Fund doles out first grants for flood victims

Chris Mathews — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:22:46 +0000

The Imelda Assistance Fund, created to meet the needs of those impacted by Tropical Storm Imelda, released its first grant funds Nov. 26.

The first round of grants — totaling $310,000 — were awarded to six nonprofit organizations to provide support s...

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Eastern edge of Spring, Klein feels Imelda effects

Hannah Zedaker — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:20:00 +0000

Although Tropical Depression Imelda steered mostly clear of Spring and Klein as it pummeled parts of Southeast Texas with as much as 42 inches of rain Sept. 17-20, the community’s eastern edge still felt the effects of the storm.

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