By Vania Raebel | October 4, 2019
Hurricane Harvey: 2017
Hurricane Harvey was the first major hurricane to hit the United States since 2005. For a period of four days, heavy rain caused intense flooding in Texas and Louisiana. In the wake of the calamity, dozens of drones hovered over the Houston metropolitan area to monitor the hurricane’s damaging effects to homes, bridges, roads, power lines, office buildings, and oil and gas facilities.
The major flooding brought about by the four-day rainfall inflicted more than $125 billion worth of damage. It is tied with Hurricane Katrina as the most severely damaging and costly hurricanes in the history of the United States. The hurricane destroyed thousands of houses, rendering more than 30,000 residents homeless. A total of 17,000 people needed to be rescued at the height of the catastrophe.
