Measurements for Texas on Tuesday morning showed levels in some areas around Houston to be 25ft above “flood” level. The Houston areaMore than 2.3 million people live in Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. Tens of thousands of homes in and around Houston are semi-submerged and thousands of people have sought emergency shelter from the wind and rain. Despite this rapid population growth, in recent decades fuelled substantially by internal migration by black and Latino Americans, Houston remains starkly segregated. Even before the storm hit, oil companies had started reducing output at refineries in its path.

Source: The Guardian August 29, 2017 15:25 UTC