Beginning Recovery

Houston begins cleaning up and looking at a very costly recovery process.

There are moments of calm amidst the devastation, but floodwaters still remain high. In Houston, authorities are going door to door, keeping track of cleared homes using GPS coordinates. The state says some 37,000 homes in Texas have been heavily damaged, 7,000 destroyed. Crowds in shelters are thinning a bit, but it’s not clear where many people will go. The Trump Administration is planning to ask Congress for more money for relief efforts. The economic cost is estimated to be anywhere from one hundred sixty to one hundred ninety billion dollars, more than Katrina and Sandy combined.