How Houston's layout may have made its flooding worse
(CNN)Tropical Storm Harvey, which has flooded thousands of Houston-area homes, is serving up a hard lesson for city planners in Texas. Experts say better urban design and stricter regulations might have made the deadly storm less destructive. "Houston is not designed to handle this kind of rainfall," said Professor Sam Brody, an expert on urban and floodplain management at Texas A&M University. It's not like the nation's fourth-largest city isn't aware of the problem. Tropica