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Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
The Galveston Bay Area, also known as Bay Area Houston or simply the Bay Area, [2] [3] is a region that surrounds the Galveston Bay estuary of Southeast Texas in the United States, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Normally the term refers to the mainland communities around the bay and excludes Galveston as well as ...
In a triangular area between Veterans Memorial Drive, State Highway 249, and Interstate 45 North. 8. Westbranch. West. Along Beltway 8 south of Jersey Village. 9. Addicks / Park Ten. West. Includes the entirety of Addicks Reservoir and a small area between the reservoir and Interstate 10 west.
10 feet (3.0 m) Settlements. Houston, Pasadena, League City, Baytown, Texas City, Galveston, La Porte, Seabrook, Anahuac. Galveston Bay ( / ˈɡælvɪstən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas. It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries ...
The area is now a dense urban landscape, part of San Juan, the capital of the U.S. island territory. Rodriguez said he learned to play golf by hitting tin cans with a guava tree stick and then ...
Clear Lake, or the Clear Lake Area, is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas, United States. It is part of the Galveston Bay Area, which itself is a section of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. [ 2][ 3] The area is geographically characterized by the bodies of water in it and around it, including ...
The return of soaring heat in Houston on Tuesday deepened the misery for millions of people still without power after Hurricane Beryl crashed into Texas and left residents in search of places to ...
June 3, 2024 at 11:29 PM. HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman and Yainer Diaz homered in the eighth inning, helping the Houston Astros top the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 on Monday night. “It was great ...