A Century of Stormy Weather in Photos

If there's anything that history teaches us, it's that no matter what we do or where we build, this city has and always will continue to flood.

Edited by Katharine Shilcutt July 18, 2017 Published in the August 2017 issue of Houstonia

From the city's heaviest snowfall in 1895 to the water-logged cars and streets left behind by Hurricane Alicia in 1983, we scoured our city's historic image archives—with extra-special thanks to the Sloane Gallery and the Houston Public Library—to create a visual catalog of weather-related devastation through the decades.

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Weather, Hurricanes, Storms, Flooding, Houston History, Historic Houston

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