(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

Hurricane Harvey, pumped up by warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, is roaring toward an overnight landfall near the major coastal city of Corpus Christi. It is expected to be the strongest storm to hit the United States in more than a decade. Here's what we know now: Harvey strengthens The storm became a Category 2 hurricane early Friday, with winds of 110 mph. It is forecast to strengthen to a Category 3 storm before landfall overnight, falling just a mile-per-hour short of t