WWII - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/wwii/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:48:38 +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 WWII - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/wwii/ 32 32 103504436 Top Stories of 2021 in Review https://houstonnewmedia.org/top-stories-of-2021-in-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-stories-of-2021-in-review Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:48:38 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=30380 Below are my personal picks for the top flood-mitigation stories of 2021. The Fight for Funding In 2019, Commissioners Court established “equity” guidelines that prioritized projects in Low-to-Moderate Income watersheds. Then this year: Harris County won no US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Grants in the first round of Harvey competition. To compensate […]

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]]> 227250 How to Speed Up Flood Mitigation Funding: Part II https://houstonnewmedia.org/how-to-speed-up-flood-mitigation-funding-part-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-speed-up-flood-mitigation-funding-part-ii Sun, 09 May 2021 19:24:50 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=25881 Today marks the 1349th day since Hurricane Harvey. That’s also how long it took the United States to win World War II. To date, we’ve studied problems, made bold plans and, in a few cases, actually started constructing flood mitigation projects. But none of the $2.1 billion allocated for Texas flood mitigation by the US […]

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]]> 126973 It’s Official: Harvey Flood Mitigation Is Taking Longer than World War II https://houstonnewmedia.org/its-official-harvey-flood-mitigation-is-taking-longer-than-world-war-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-official-harvey-flood-mitigation-is-taking-longer-than-world-war-ii Fri, 07 May 2021 19:33:18 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=25652 Sunday, May 9th will mark a special day in the history of flood mitigation. We will have spent more time responding to Hurricane Harvey – and accomplishing little – than it took us to win World War II. December 7, 1941 to VJ Day on August 15, 1945 was 1349 days. On May 9, 2021, […]

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