How Did Hurricane Harvey Impact Houston

August 25, 2017 Hurricane Harvey hit the coast of Texas with absolute power. It was originally predicted that it would not surpass category 1, the elements combined and made Harvey extremely vicious. It hit the most populated areas on the United States becoming one of the most destructive. People did not have enough time to properly prepare for the unpredicted devastation ahead. However, the government and the people responded with strong efforts. Let’s start with the federal department. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (which is referred to as FEMA), with its government accomplices mobilized a work force and with many assets to help states affected. About 21,000 government assets were sent to help out during the vicious Tropical Storm. A lot of people sought refuge during the storm and the Federal government gave them many places to stay for example many government owned sites were converted refuge sites for the victims. The U.S coast guard played a huge role to aid victims. Thousands of coast guards were deployed in support of the relief efforts. They evacuated victims through government transport such as helicopters and big vehicles that could travel through the flooding. They are also opened various docks and waterways within Brownsville, Kentucky without any restrictions to the public. FEMA provided thousands of meals, medical and household items. Fema also paid rent for the victim’s short-term housing. Other ongoing Federal

Economic Impact Industries were forced to move to Houston (“Martinez”). This caused a loss on huge sources of money for Galveston that otherwise would have been able to give Galveston a little bit of recovery. Individual losses plus public property losses such as paving, water works, schools, hospitals, and churches totaled to around, if not over, 30 million (“Resources”). Most of these losses would have had to been rebuilt immediately to keep the future of the younger people in the correct road to success. Because of all of the losses in the hurricane, Galveston never recovered economically (“Martinez”). Galveston is still at a large loss of money that it will probably never recover in our lifetimes. “The Texas Legislature agreed to a tax and sale of bonds to pay for raising the elevation of the city” (“Martinez”). Using the money raised from this tax, a 3 mile long seawall was built to protect the city from future floods

In the turn of the new century, the people of Galveston were faced with a grim reminder. The event that destroyed the small island of Galveston, the Galveston Hurricane, had many social, political, and economic impacts that made this storm life-changing. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 improved Texas for the better and helped Galveston grow stronger as a city.

Table 1. above shows the nature events that have happened in Houston, TX. For the most part Houston has encountered a lot of floods. These floods have been caused by heavy rain, thunderstorms and hurricanes around the area. They all have impacted the city of Houston and have been recorded along with many other events to have caused a lot of damage.

On August 26th, 2017, Hurricane Harvey crashed into Texas and devastated Houston and the surrounding area. Harvey battered cities along the Gulf of Mexico, hitting primarily low income communities, and leaving 52 inches of rainfall, destroying about 22,000 homes, and displacing thousands in its wake. The image discussed in this essay depicts a Red Cross relief center in Houston providing shelter for residents unable to evacuate. The aforementioned image is of a domestic event, but the people, objects, and context demonstrate the complex social processes of globalization. Details in this image of Hurricane Harvey illustrate the harmful effect of the globalizing market in leading developed nations to be more focused on short term economic gain rather than long term environmental protection.

Because of this hurricane, people are being forced out of their homes, left with no food, left with nothing, and being forced to see this natural disaster thrash at their city. Not only will this hurricane affect the people in Houston and south Texas, but it will also affect those across the nation who have loved ones going through this tragedy. This event is important because lives have been lost and many people are losing many of their possessions. This hurricane is bringing devastation to people in this county, who just a few days ago were living

Prompting Congress to subsidize farmers and make them stop planting wheat and have them start planting grass again to avoid the dust bowl. Most of them didn’t want to because the money that the government was offering was different from the money that the people were offering and the farmers would rather have money always then sometimes get money. The reason why they would rather give it to the people is that they thought that it was helping the country rather than putting it down the toilet, but if they gave it to the people to make bread and other foods to help us out of the depression rather than planting trees that wouldn't benefit the farmers. After a while the government finally was getting the hang of what was going on and had the farmers replant the trees like i have said before. That then helped with not having any more loose dry soil being thrown around and killing the meat that people eat and the people lungs when they would breathe in the dust and form mud clumps in their

to the new changes that the war had left,countries had less food, less jobs especially for men, and

Harvey known as an apocalyptic storm for many Houstonian’s who have described the scenery and event for that weekend. Many homes, businesses, and schools destroyed causing it to be one of the biggest recovery mission in the nation. A big flare of controversy between the government and the state happened as well. Even with many homes lost and so much sadness spread across south Texas and Houston many texans came together as one.

The hurricane affected Houston in an economic way by stopping production because without oil wen cannot make gases without gas some people cannot go to work because they do not have gas in their car. Another way the hurricane affected Houston in an economic way is by taxes because some place in Houston are destroy by the hurricane so people don’t have enough money to pay taxes. The hurricane affected Houston in a Social/Cultural Factors way is by food because a lot of markets were flooded by water so there were not much of good for people to buy and their prices were a little bit high because of the hurricane, another way the hurricane affected Houston in a Social/Cultural Factors way is by clothes because weather in your house or a market

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma could have a major negative impact on both Texas and Florida's economies and the United States' overall economy.

more flooding( the weather company). Many towns in Houston Texas have been overflown by the rain. People are trapped in there houses. Some areas in Houston Texas have had up to 50 inches of rain(the weather company). Several out of state people are brining there own boats to Houston Texas, because there helping people who are trapped indoors by the flood(extreme weather). Many people who live there in Houston are rescuing animals, there risking there own life's to save save animals (CNN.com). Houston is setting up many shelters so people can get, clothes, water and food and etc. And Houston is providing places to sleep at the shelter(hurricane Harvey ). It will be a while before Houston Texas can fully recover from this terrible tragedy.

I believe people to be naturally good to others, because there is more kind-hearted people more than cold-hearted people in this world. In this world you will see a handful of people helping and giving to others no matter the situation. The percentage of evil and cruel people is a very low percentage. After everything people all over Texas is coming together, and it shows the good in people that we thought did not have a good heart.

Poor people had to share homes with other families or complete strangers because they could not afford a house. They lived in poor overcrowded housing. Numerous people were dying because diseases were being spread everywhere. They government should be responsible to protect the citizens going through this because the government can stop the poor conditions, they wanted to control civil order. Years later, they acknowledged their responsibility for the poor and for adjusting the economy.

Hurricane Ike affected the Houston/ Galveston area for the worst, but was there an upside that can be seen now, 8 years in the future? Did the hurricane have any affect on the income in Houston? For this study, I will focus on the area in Houston that was affected by the hurricane. Additionally, I will be looking at data from 3 years; 2000 (control income from before the hurricane), 2008 (when the hurricane hit), and 2016 (present day). To gather data, I will be using a survey, which will be asking people their approximate income in these 3 years. In order for the survey to be as unbiased as possible, the questions will be open-ended, allowing for unexpected answers and removing any bias from the wording of the answers. The data will be compared