Thursday, Aug 31, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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“The problem starts for Houston almost the moment that it’s founded.” That’s how Richard Fausset, who covers the South for The New York Times, describes the founding of Houston, which was built on the edge of a swampy bayou. On today’s show, he describes the uniquely American success story of Houston as a boomtown, and how Harvey’s destruction recasts the narrative. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:33.0	This is The Daily.
0:37.0	Today, the country's biggest rainstorm in recorded history, heads east, surprising and
0:46.5	overwhelming the smaller towns of Texas.
0:50.3	And it was built on the edge of a swampy by you.
0:54.6	How from the very beginning, Houston was made to flood.
1:01.9	It's Thursday, August 31st.
1:05.6	Wow, it's 10 o'clock.
1:10.6	I'm dry and I am really happy to report to my husband and his with me.
1:19.9	Oh my dog!
1:22.1	I've lived here for 30 years.
1:23.3	This is the most rain I've ever seen.
1:25.1	It's crazy.
1:26.1	Please help the water is getting up to our house.
1:29.2	We're more than eight feet in water.
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