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The Record Flood of 2001
After five days' pounding by intermittent, torrential rain, Houston-area residents awoke Monday (06.11.01) to cheery blue skies -- and to the wreckage and misery caused by the worst urban flooding in seven years. At least 20 people died as Tropical Storm Allison's floodwaters surged over freeways and swamped 20,000 homes.

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After years of often contentious debate, millions of dollars spent on feasibility studies, and legal and legislative wrangling that reached as far as the U.S. Congress, construction started on Houston's first light rail line.