On the ground, in this new storm, little seemed to have changed. With 107 dead and more than 30,000 displaced, it remains tied for the costliest cyclone on record. Its low-lying sprawl flooded faster than anyone had expected its highways became muddy estuaries. When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in August 2017, the city was far from prepared. I had arrived for the opening preview of the new Menil Drawing Institute, four days before the US midterm elections. This wasn’t in the forecast, I thought – but then the airwaves that weekend were full of shaky predictions: a big Blue Wave was coming, and it was going to break first in Texas. I landed in Houston in the midst of a vicious storm, not long before air traffic control grounded all departing flights. We came down like the rain, hard and angular.
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