For years, the Houston area has been losing ground (from 2016 article)

Houston Chronicle ^ | May 28, 2016 | John D. Harden

[MCF]

Spring Branch, where Interstate 10 and Beltway 8 meet, has dropped 4 feet since 1975. Jersey Village, along Route 290 and to the west of Beltway 8, is almost 2 feet lower than it was in 1996. And Greater Greenspoint, where Interstate 45 intersects with Beltway 8, has given up about 2 feet in the last decade alone, according to USGS data.

"When you lose that much, it makes an area prone to floods when they weren't historically," said Mark Kasmarek, a hydrogeologist for more than 30 years with the USGS.

[Balding_Eagle]

The ground isn’t sinking, it’s the oceans that are rising.

Just ask Al Gore

[TRY ONE]

50 inches of rain makes Houston prone to flooding!

Furthermore, 50 inches of rain anywhere in the world makes them prone to flooding!

[JimSEA]

That makes sense. I remember the areas of land subsidence in Arizona's Maricopa and western Pinal counties. Ground water pumping does that. Even more so when the groundwater isn't naturally replaced.

[JimSEA]

That makes sense. I remember the areas of land subsidence in Arizona's Maricopa and western Pinal counties. Ground water pumping does that. Even more so when the groundwater isn't naturally replaced.

[VeniVidiVici]

Harvey was no more “wet” than any other hurricane.

Two high pressure systems forced it to stall dumping that much rain in one place.

Of course you won’t hear that on CNN.

[blueunicorn6]

Thank goodness the Mayor of Houston turned down the thermostat on the sun!

Maybe he can change the shape of the continents, too.

[SecondAmendment]

And yet these areas are all significantly (50 - 100+ feet ) ABOVE sea-level.

Yet nobody seems to care about wisdom of putting New Orleans BELOW SEA-LEVEL AND AT THE DOWNSTREAM END OF THE SECOND LARGEST DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN NORTH AMERICA!

[notaliberal]

George Strait is planning on putting together something to raise money for victims of hurricane. He has a ranch in Rockport which that was one of the affected areas reported by The Boot

[deport]

George Harvey Strait is going to help. It’s ironic that his middle name is Harvey.

[notaliberal]

George Straight—a real man!

[Ozark Tom]

Only reason the Mississippi isn’t running between Morgan City and Berwick was sheer luck that the Old River Control Structure held during the 1973 flood.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I once saw an interesting scheme to restore groundwater to areas with subsidence due to wells. It needs a river prone to flooding in the area.

First you build a chain of enormous cisterns designed to catch floodwaters during a flood like this one. Then month after month, the water is pumped through a nanotube filtration system, resulting in a vast amount of close to distilled water. This is then pumped underground, not just to restore the water table or an aquifer, but to push underground contamination towards pumping stations that will remove it from the soil.

Again, a very broad idea.