TxDOT says it can’t guarantee that upgrades to one of Houston’s main hurricane evacuation routes will prevent future flooding of U.S. 59.
This week’s Insider Deals are so good you’ll want all of themFlooding on U.S. Highway 59 in Livingston on May 2, 2024. Thousands fled their Southeast Texas homes as heavy rains inundated multiple counties.— a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.LUFKIN — U.S. Highway 59, a major evacuation route from Houston , has been a problem for East Texas for decades.
Steps to upgrade the highway in other areas have focused on larger population centers, such as Lufkin and Nacogdoches. But it’s unclear whether those upgrades will prevent the kind of flooding that submerged parts of the highway this spring and during Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008. TxDOT would not say whether current improvement plans take into account warnings from climatologists of even more severe flooding to come due to climate change.
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