With just five weeks remaining before voters decide whether to tax themselves for better drainage and infrastructure, numerous unanswered questions remain about how the ballot initiative would impact individual property owners or how the city would spend the money.  Read More:

Neighbors near Castor and Crosstimbers in northeast Houston blamed the city of Houston for their flooding woes Friday as they fought rising water that seeped into their homes. Several residents said they saw a foot and a half of water in their front yards and at least four or five houses on the block saw […]

// From CNN: The Cumberland River is receding in swamped Nashville, Tennessee, but Music City faces a long recovery from the historic flooding. The floods left landmarks, homes and businesses underwater in the country music capital. Text continues after gallery … At least 27 deaths were blamed on flooding in the Southeast, 18 of them […]

Heavy storms and flooding killed at least 29 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky, damaged thousands of homes and threatened the heart of Nashville’s tourism district. Tennessee was the hardest hit, as muddy waters continued rising in the central and western parts of the state after as much as 18 inches of rain fell over […]