Hurricane Harvey 2017

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Introduction

Hurricane Harvey yielded extensive damage across the Southern United States, especially Texas.

Hazards
Cyclone, Hurricane and Typhoon
Country and region
United States of America

Knowledge base

Research briefs

Sediment movement during Hurricane Harvey could negatively impact future flooding, prove costly to Houston, UH study finds

Enormous amounts of sediment, or sand and mud, flowed through Houston waterways during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, that could seriously impact future flooding events and be costly to the City of Houston.
University of Houston
Update

Flooded city: A slow catastrophe in post-Harvey Houston

Between 2015 and 2017, Houston was impacted by three "500-year" flood events, including Hurricane Harvey, which caused unprecedented damage to its people and its infrastructure.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
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Documents and publications

Disaster impacts surveillance from social media with topic modeling and feature extraction: case of Hurricane Harvey

This study analyzed the content of Twitter data collected during Hurricane Harvey to identify the data of the highest relevance for assessing the impacts on infrastructure through automatically grouping the tweets by topics of discussion.
A resident of Houston, Texas carries away debris after flooding brought about by Hurricane Harvey
Update

Hurricane Harvey’s hardest hit survivors five times as likely to experience anxiety from COVID-19 pandemic

Respondents with the greatest economic and mental health impacts from Hurricane Harvey were respectively four times more likely to experience income loss during the pandemic and five times more likely to suffer severe anxiety because of the pandemic.
University of Notre Dame
Research briefs

Some Houstonians still struggling five years after Harvey

Houston’s vulnerable populations still lag in post-Harvey recovery.
University of Houston
flooded streets with people in boats
Research briefs

Climate change exacerbated hurricane Harvey’s flood damage, hitting low-income and Latinx neighborhoods disproportionately harder

New research shows that up to 50 percent of residences in Houston’s Harris County would not have been flooded by Hurricane Harvey five years ago if it were not for the impact of climate change.
Louisiana State University
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Documents and publications

Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of Hurricane Harvey

This research investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in climate change-attributed extreme weather event impacts during the Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas.
Research briefs

Houston residents’ chemical exposure increased post-Hurricane Harvey, OSU study finds

Researchers discovered that, on average, 75% of the chemicals detected in two measurements were found in higher concentrations immediately after the hurricane. People’s baseline exposure, however, was already high.
Oregon State University
Research briefs

Economic resilience actions avert losses when disaster strikes

The research team ran an large-area surveys of firms affected by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Harvey and found that for every dollar spent on resilience, firms avoided an average of $4.57 in business interruption losses.
Ohio State University
Documents and publications

Simulation of Hurricane Harvey flood event through coupled hydrologic‐hydraulic models: Challenges and next steps

Using the 2017 Hurricane Harvey flood event as a test case, this study set up a series of sensitivity analyses to highlight three challenges associated with large‐scale flood inundation modeling, including (a) model parameterization, (b) errors in digital

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