What if another Harvey sized storm hits the Houston area? (China: insurance, house)

[KoNgFooCj]

What would be the implications of that? More massive flooding? Insurance rates skyrocketing? Mass evacuations? How would that affect Houston's and Texas's future?

[cBach]

The same as before. Lots of flooded homes but the city will resume.

The net effect is that a lot more homes would be elevated.

My sister elevated her home 4 feet after Harvey.

[Mark Senior]

Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

What would be the implications of that? More massive flooding? Insurance rates skyrocketing? Mass evacuations? How would that affect Houston's and Texas's future?

Yeah, I wonder what effect this would have on Houston's ever-growing population year after year for decades. I was curious if Houston would even lose, population, that's what I expected. Not, but a noticeable slow down in growth. Below are the latest annual Census Beaure Estimates, the last figure is for July 1, 2018, late May 2020, the census will release data for July 1, 2019, which will show the longer term, if any, of the effect on slowing annual growth shown here, likely or possibly caused by Harvey's devastation, or not because the annual growth rate was slowing before Harvey?

Reading backwards, the last figure is for July 1, 2018, the next going left, is for July 1, 2017


Houston city, Texas 2,099,451 2,093,615 2,098,446 2,124,143 2,160,086 2,198,280 2,240,982 2,286,630, July 1, 2016, 2,309,752 July 1, 2017, 2,317,445, July 1, 2018, 2,325,502

Actually, it looks like the slowing growth started before Harvey?

[KoNgFooCj]

Yeah, Houston's population growth has slowed dramatically in the past 2 years. Raising your house is a great idea. They're doing that in Florida as well. In fact I believe this is how all coastal cities will beat climate change. The sea level rises slow enough for us ingenious humans to lift our infrastructure fast enough. I know sea levels could rise 200 more feet if all the ice melts, but that won't be for at least 2,000 years. Just keep raising infrastructure. Unfortunately Houston's facing double jeopardy with the city also subsiding at the same time.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

Yeah, I wonder what effect this would have on Houston's ever-growing population year after year for decades. I was curious if Houston would even lose, population, that's what I expected. Not, but a noticeable slow down in growth. Below are the latest annual Census Beaure Estimates, the last figure is for July 1, 2018, late May 2020, the census will release data for July 1, 2019, which will show the longer term, if any, of the effect on slowing annual growth shown here, likely or possibly caused by Harvey's devastation, or not because the annual growth rate was slowing before Harvey?

Reading backwards, the last figure is for July 1, 2018, the next going left, is for July 1, 2017


Houston city, Texas 2,099,451 2,093,615 2,098,446 2,124,143 2,160,086 2,198,280 2,240,982 2,286,630, July 1, 2016, 2,309,752 July 1, 2017, 2,317,445, July 1, 2018, 2,325,502

Actually, it looks like the slowing growth started before Harvey?

The slow down had little to do with Harvey and everything to do with the oil slump.

[SanJac]

Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

What would be the implications of that? More massive flooding? Insurance rates skyrocketing? Mass evacuations? How would that affect Houston's and Texas's future?

As one of my Chinese co-workers told her American counterpart, “Use your brain!”

And then she was promptly reported to HR. She said it was a normal expression in China.

What do YOU think the implications would be?

What if another Katrina hit New Orleans? What if another earthquake hit San Francisco? My bet is those citizens would rebuild and start over. That’s what people do...

[UnfairPark]

Originally Posted by SanJac

What do YOU think the implications would be?

What if another Katrina hit New Orleans? What if another earthquake hit San Francisco? My bet is those citizens would rebuild and start over. That’s what people do...

YUP. Growth may slow down temporarily but that’s about it. Life goes on.

[kemahkami]

I'm totally up for a Harvey encore in Houston.

Tropical weather is quite epic and exciting, while also providing fundamental benefits for the greenery upon the land. Quite the useful combination.

Plus, I always have felt that the city needed a good bulldozer to get rid of it's sprawl. A Harvey-scale flood will do much of the work, allowing the city a cleaner slate to reconstruct with true urban density.

[Hopeful for Life]

Originally Posted by ScrappyJoe

I'm totally up for a Harvey encore in Houston.

Tropical weather is quite epic and exciting, while also providing fundamental benefits for the greenery upon the land. Quite the useful combination.

Plus, I always have felt that the city needed a good bulldozer to get rid of it's sprawl. A Harvey-scale flood will do much of the work, allowing the city a cleaner slate to reconstruct with true urban density.

It’s dense enough as it is. How do you expect traffic to move within the core?

[RJ312]

Originally Posted by SanJac

As one of my Chinese co-workers told her American counterpart, “Use your brain!”

And then she was promptly reported to HR. She said it was a normal expression in China.

What do YOU think the implications would be?

What if another Katrina hit New Orleans? What if another earthquake hit San Francisco? My bet is those citizens would rebuild and start over. That’s what people do...

Getting reported to HR for saying "Use your brain" is silly.

Another large hurricane will hit Houston. There were 9 years in between Ike in 2008 and Harvey in 2017. Same things will happen as always.