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HURRICANE HARVEY AND THE TEXAS COAST

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/28/harvey-may-force-30000-people-into-s helters-while-flooding-will-linger-officials-warn/?utm_term=.7ebc56d71dc8

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-houston-flooding/?utm_term=.97c5a22a e33b

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/01/us/hurricane-harvey-damage-texas-cities-towns.ht ml

Es+mate coastal flooding damage- coastal surge depth (FEMA, 8/27/2017)

This does not account for elevated structures and assumed that the parcel centroid is the building location. In addition, this does not account for win d damage, flooding from dam or levee breaks, flooding as a result of failure of irrigation ditches, use of spillways and weirs, small tributary flooding with minimal or no gage data, or stormwater backup. This data will be refined using event imagery, when provided.

Source: https://houstonrecovers.org/numbers/

(Joe Raedle/GeFy Images)

Social vulnerability defined

“the characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of a natural hazard.”

Blaikie, Cannon, Davis, and Wisner (1994)

The Geography of Vulnerability

People and households vary in their capacity to anticipate, cope with, respond, and recover from disasters. People and households are not randomly distributed in space. They are concentrated in fairly predictable spatial patterns based on household characteristics. These patterns increase exposure to flooding and

• ther hazards; and have

Short- and long-term conse quences for socially- vulnerable populations.

“Low-income households live in low-quality homes in low-lying areas”

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/01/us/hurricane-harvey-damage-texas-cities-towns.html

ESRI Social Vulnerability Maps

Source: https://www.communitycommons.org/2017/09/data-viz-a-hurricane-of-information/

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/ar+cles/news/2015/06/15/60999/epa-mapping-tool-shows-houstons-hot-spots-of-toxic-risk/

EPA Mapping Tool Shows Houston’s Hot Spots Of Toxic Risk

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-houston-flooding/?utm_term=.97c5a22a e33b

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-houston-flooding/?utm_term=.97c5a22a e33b

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-houston-flooding/?utm_term=.97c5a22a e33b

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-houston-flooding/?utm_term=.97c5a22a e33b

City of Houston: Structure damage – Race/Ethnicity

City of Houston: Structure damage – Income

A mobile park is destroyed aVer Hurricane Harvey landed in the Coast Bend area on Aug. 26, in Port Aransas, Texas.

(Gabe Hernandez/Corpus Chris+ Caller-Times via AP)

Delia Garza, 56, steps out of her home and heads to her father's house across the street in Tivoli, Texas, Aug. 28. Garza said she, her father and her sister all live next to each other in Tivoli. She and her sister spent the night in their father's home during the storm.

(Ana Ramirez/The Victoria Advocate via AP)

Genice Gipson comforts her lifelong friend, LoreFa Capistran, outside of Capistran's apartment complex in Refugio, Texas, on Aug. 28. "We got to be strong, baby," Gipson told Capistran. (Nick Wagner/rAus+n American-Sta tesman via AP)