“Hurricane Harvey is the first disaster where social media calls for help appear to have supplanted the overloaded 911 call systems,” Keri Stephens, an associate professor in UT’s Department ...

Houston police are looking for a 44-year-old man who went missing as he tried to drive to work on Aug. 26, as Tropical Storm Harvey was moving into the Houston area.

The amount of post-Harvey government testing contrasts sharply with what happened after two other major Gulf Coast hurricanes. After Hurricane Ike hit Texas in 2008, state regulators collected 85 ...

That’s a more-than-5,000-square-mile area of impact. And that’s just the Houston-area part of the storm. TF: You were pretty sure a flood of this magnitude was going to happen sooner or later.

Harvey’s toll may yet increase and put the storm on a scale of economic devastation with Hurricane Katrina, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates cost about ...

Hurricane Harvey, which sparked extreme flooding in Houston and the surrounding area in August and September, caused $125 billion in damage, the year’s most expensive disaster.

Hurricane Harvey is the worst rainfall disaster in US history — this interactive map shows how bad it was By Skye Gould , Rebecca Harrington , and Leanna Garfield Aug 31, 2017, 2:43 PM PT ...

Members of First Baptist Church of Loeb chain saw pews and clean up the church on U.S. 69 that had eight feet of water in it due to Hurricane Harvey flooding in Lumberton, Texas, Sept. 7, 2017.

Hurricane Harvey was a wake-up call for petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast to rethink their plans for major floods. Companies are starting to plan for larger, more severe storms.

After making landfall, Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a Category 3, with winds of up to 125 miles per hour, at 1 a.m. Saturday, the National Weather Service reported.

Although the brunt of Harvey’s cost will be borne in southeast Texas, particularly the sprawling Houston area, the effects will be felt more broadly. Motorists across the country can expect to ...

As Hurricane Harvey swirls through the Gulf of Mexico, speeding toward the Texas coast, it could also bring a critical test of President Donald Trump’s abilities as commander-in-chief.