{"id":11577,"date":"2025-07-15T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11577\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:04:07","slug":"why-texas-is-so-vulnerable-to-floods-climate-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11577\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Texas Is So Vulnerable to Floods, Climate Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Texas is reeling from floods that have killed more than 100 people and caused an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-08\/texas-disaster-adds-to-us-flood-costs-over-200-billion-as-climate-risks-mount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">estimated $18 billion to $22 billion<\/a> in damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It\u2019s the latest in a string of climate disasters to hit the state hard, including 2017\u2019s Hurricane Harvey, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-25\/harvey-s-5-feet-of-rain-make-it-second-costliest-u-s-hurricane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">left Houston underwater<\/a>, the 2021 deep freeze that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-01-16\/why-texas-s-power-grid-is-facing-another-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">knocked out the state\u2019s power grid<\/a>, and multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/en\/news\/thp\/2024-05-25\/forecasters-warn-oklahoma-may-see-dangerous-tornadoes-as-texas-bakes-in-record-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">severe weather outbreaks<\/a> last year that caused billions of dollars in losses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas is reeling from floods that have killed more than 100 people and caused an estimated $18 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[28,2356,4253,192,11501,11500,2808,681,2854,7095,7264,11499,1343,79,1022],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-explainer","tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","tag-florida","tag-georgia","tag-green","tag-houston","tag-infrastructure","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-policy","tag-science","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}