On September 11th 2008 the National Weather Service issued a severe alert to Houston residents,
ALL NEIGHBORHOODS, AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES, WILL BE INUNDATED. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH.The alert was issued because of the imminent threat of Hurricane Ike, which at the fourth dimension was heading straight towards cardinal Houston. Luckily, on September 13th, Hurricane Ike shifted class as well as eventually striking province a picayune northward of the city. The tempest nonetheless caused $30 billion inward harm as well as killed at to the lowest degree 74 people inward Texas.
The Texas Tribune as well as ProPublica debate that it is alone a thing of fourth dimension earlier a perfect tempest will striking Houston, potentially killing thousands of residents.
Hell as well as High Water is a mapped visualization of the dangers Houston faces from a hereafter hurricane. The mapped interactive simulates the probable effects of a number of potential storms on the metropolis of Houston. Each of these simulations overlays the rail of a potential tempest over a satellite persuasion of the city. These tracks are thus animated to demo the probable flooding events that could accept house inward Houston if such a tempest striking the city.
The Texas Tribune argues that non plenty has been done to protect the metropolis from potential hereafter storms. physician Bill Merrell, a marine scientist at Texas A&M University, believes that the metropolis needs to construct floodgates at the entrance to Galveston Bay. He predicts something volition hold upwardly built - iv years after the side past times side devastating hurricane.
