FEMA flood maps exposed as another government LIE … 75% of flooded homes in southeast Houston were OUTSIDE FEMA flood zones

‘Hurricane Harvey wreaked absolute devastation when it made landfall over Texas in late August of this year. According to AccuWeather, it dumped 11 trillion gallons of rain on Texas – the equivalent of 51 inches – resulting in at least 13 million people being issued flood watches or warnings. Over 3,400 water rescues had to be performed in Houston alone as a result of the 56,000 9-1-1 calls logged in the city in just 15 hours (the average number of calls on a typical day is only 8,000).
Around 30,000 people had to be temporarily housed, and an estimated 450,000 victims have asked FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) for disaster assistance. Houston, which has the 7th largest school district in the country, was forced to cancel classes, leaving 215,000 students out of school. Over 12,000 national guard members were activated to help the 58 counties in Texas which were declared disaster areas.
Now it has emerged that a study published in the journal Natural Hazards Review just days before Harvey unleashed its fury on the state warned that FEMA’s 100-year flood plain maps had failed to capture at least 75 percent of the flood damage over southeast Houston during the decade from 1999 to 2009. The study was conducted by researchers from Rice University and Texas A&M University at Galveston.’
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