JUST IN: President Donald Trump will visit Texas Tuesday to review the state's recovery efforts. https://t.co/HQnpjJ3CfQ

— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) August 27, 2017

This coming week will have a natural disaster that while unavoidable at one level, could have been addressed more specifically in terms of flood control infrastructure, that thing that Trump thinks he talks bigly about, except that things like gender-policed bathrooms and forced birthing are more important to Texas legislators.

Regional policy takes a back seat to what now seems quite universally devastating weather effects, while maintaining that ideological focus on the liar-in-chief. There is little attention to political ecology in states where scale trumps all. Even a city that has made some urban progress also has economic development problems that have disproportionate effects in terms of race/class.

(2015) Texas ranks among the worst of any state for flood-control spending. According to the Texas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the state is second only to Louisiana the U.S. in terms of dollars paid out in flood claims. The state does not require communities to enroll in the National Flood Insurance Program (a part of FEMA), even though Texas ranks second only to Florida in its number of total flood insurance policies across its communities."When the flood comes, it doesn't respect political boundaries,"

Wherever possible, the state leaves it to individual cities and counties to protect themselves against flooding. Texas requires cities and counties to meet the eligibility requirements for NFIP, but it does not require cities to enroll, as some states do. (Many Texas cities and counties are enrolled in the program.) More to the point, though: Texas doesn’t fund flood-control infrastructure directly. And Texas doesn’t have a statewide floodplain management plan.

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