Plum Grove - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/plum-grove/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Wed, 01 May 2024 21:35:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Plum Grove - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/plum-grove/ 32 32 103504436 East Fork Homes Flooding, Another Flood Watch Issued https://houstonnewmedia.org/east-fork-homes-flooding-another-flood-watch-issued/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=east-fork-homes-flooding-another-flood-watch-issued Wed, 01 May 2024 21:35:03 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=44590 May 1, 2024 – Even as East Fork homes are flooding, the National Weather Service has issued another Flood Watch for the region. Monday’s Storm Brings Wednesday’s Flood The stormwater from last Sunday night/Monday morning that’s flooding homes near the East Fork San Jacinto could get reinforcements tonight. Another powerful storm is approaching and will […]

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]]> 762558 Plum Grove, Splendora, Liberty, Others Receive HUD Grants Through GLO https://houstonnewmedia.org/plum-grove-splendora-liberty-others-receive-hud-grants-through-glo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plum-grove-splendora-liberty-others-receive-hud-grants-through-glo Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:42:19 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=38401 GLO Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced yesterday more than $43 million in HUD grants for 44 infrastructure projects stemming from 2019 Disasters. The $43 million is the combined total of grants made to counties and cities stretching from the Rio Grande Valley to southeast Texas. The infrastructure-project grants will help communities recover from the 2019 […]

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]]> 570895 Family Trapped For Three Days As Floodwaters Ripped Through Sand Mine, Then Under Their Home https://houstonnewmedia.org/family-trapped-for-three-days-as-floodwaters-ripped-through-sand-mine-then-under-their-home/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-trapped-for-three-days-as-floodwaters-ripped-through-sand-mine-then-under-their-home Tue, 04 May 2021 21:04:05 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=25788 Yesterday, I wrote how the San Jacinto East Fork seemed to have re-routed itself through an abandoned sand mine. This morning I got a call from a couple who live near the mine. The woman and her husband had been trapped in their home for three days by the river which is now – incredibly […]

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]]> 126012 Rampaging East Fork Floodwaters Cut New Path Through Plum Grove Sand Mine https://houstonnewmedia.org/rampaging-east-fork-floodwaters-cut-new-path-through-plum-grove-sand-mine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rampaging-east-fork-floodwaters-cut-new-path-through-plum-grove-sand-mine Mon, 03 May 2021 20:45:40 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=25740 The sign outside the abandoned Texas Concrete Sand and Gravel Mine in Plum Grove tells readers that an RV resort is coming soon. They might want to rethink that concept. Yesterday, rampaging floodwaters destroyed most of the mine except for a small area near the entry on FM1010. Classic Example of Pit Capture The East […]

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]]> 125812 Flooding of the Fifth Kind: By Government Neglect https://houstonnewmedia.org/flooding-of-the-fifth-kind-by-government-neglect/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flooding-of-the-fifth-kind-by-government-neglect Sun, 03 Jan 2021 02:55:33 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=23614 The National Weather Service distinguishes between four major types of flooding: coastal, riverine, street and sheet flow. After flying over Colony Ridge on New Year’s Day, I would add a fifth: flooding by government neglect. Despite dire predictions for the New Year’s Eve storm, the Plum Grove/Colony Ridge area in Liberty County only got about […]

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