by Bill King | Mar 23, 2019 | Flooding, Harvey Recovery, Hurricane Preparation, Kingwood
For those of you not familiar with the flooding problems in Kingwood, there is a widespread consensus among flood experts and that community that a large sand bar which has accumulated where the West Fork of the San Jacinto River enters Lake Houston is one of...
by Bill King | Oct 27, 2018 | Hurricane Preparation
In 2006, I chaired a regional task force that made recommendations on redrawing evacuation plans after the disastrous Hurricane Rita evacuation. There was one storm scenario in the historical record that haunted our task force: a fast-moving hurricane that...
by Bill King Policy | Oct 12, 2017 | Flooding, Hurricane Preparation
Harvey has rekindled the debate between climate change advocates and deniers over whether tropical cyclones are becoming more frequent and intense. Both sides tend to overstate their respective cases. Trying to get a handle on whether these storms are...
by Bill King | Sep 2, 2017 | Hurricane Preparation
Because of the work I did on hurricane response after Hurricane Rita, I have gotten a number of calls from the media about Harvey. The initial calls were asking about whether Mayor Turner and County Judge Ed Emmett had made the right call by not ordering a...
by Bill King | Jul 16, 2017 | Hurricane Preparation
Kudos to my former colleagues at the Chronicle editorial board for calling on Governor Abbott to add action on a storm surge protection system to the special session. [click here to read]. Many of us had hoped the Legislature would make some progress on a...
