(May 31, 2016) The trouble with living in a swamp: Houston floods explained >The worst rain the city remembered fell in 1929, and a worse one struck in 1935. B

(May 31, 2016) The trouble with living in a swamp: Houston floods explained >The worst rain the city remembered fell in 1929, and a worse one struck in 1935. Buffalo Bayou rose up to the second story in parts of downtown. Buildings collapsed. Swaths of city were destroyed. >Talbott has a simple solution: allocate $26 billion, more than a fifth of the state's 2015 budget, mostly to buy property adjacent to the waterways, bulldoze and expand the canals. That amount of money, he said, could get all of Houston prepared to weather a city-wide, once-in-a-century storm. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/explainer/article/The-trouble-with-living-in-a-swamp-Houston-7954514.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/explainer/article/The-...