ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 11月12日 23時04分

The mayhem that Hurricane Harvey unleashed on Houston didn’t come only from the sky. On the ground, it came sweeping in from the Katy Prairie some 30 miles west of downtown. Water drains naturally in this stretch of Texas — or at least it used to. At more than 600 square miles, Houston has grown to be as big as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia combined, a giant spread of asphalt smothering many of the floodplains that once shuttled water from the prairies to the sea. Many of the residents living in and around the reservoirs didn’t even know they slept in harm’s way — until the water came pouring in from the prairie during Harvey.
The story of Harvey, Houston and the city’s difficult path forward is a quintessentially American tale. Time and again, the United States has bent the land to its will, imposing the doctrine of Manifest Destiny on nature’s most daunting obstacles. We have bridged the continent with railways and roads, erected cities in the desert, and changed the course of rivers. Unfortunately, nature always gets the last word. Houston’s growth contributed to the misery Harvey unleashed. The very forces that pushed the city forward are threatening its way of life. @joshhaner took this photo of the Buffalo Bayou with downtown #Houston in the background. Visit the link in our profile to read about the the city’s responses to #HurricaneHarvey.

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