Everything’s bigger in Texas … including the natural disasters. Texans face fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts, freezes, tornadoes and more — and the thing making these big Texas disasters even bigger? Climate change. In partnership with Planet Texas 2050, this new podcast from The Drag tells stories of how major disasters affect all of us but also how there is still hope for the future.
In 2011, the largest wildfire in state history burned for 36 days in Bastrop, Texas — our host Aurora Berry’s hometown. Texas’ record...
In a two-year period, two separate hundred-year floods hit the Onion Creek and Dove Springs neighborhoods in Austin. The floods displaced...
In January 2021, Texas was hit with a historic winter storm that overloaded the Texas power grid and left thousands without electricity...
Hurricane Harvey devastated towns along the Gulf Coast in August 2017. And Texas’ biggest city, Houston, is especially vulnerable to...
The Ogallala Aquifer is the biggest aquifer in North America, and it accounts for more than 30 percent of all agriculture in the United...
