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Let the good times roll! Tomorrow, from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. as the Museum of Natural Science premieres "Hurricane on the Bayou". Food will be available for purchase from Good Ole Boys Cajun Food Catering. Plus, you can shake your groove thing to the tunes of Willie T and the Zydeco Posse, and Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band - who are featured in the IMAX film. Radio station 104 KRBE will be...

After Tropical Storm Allison flooded neighborhoods that had never flooded before, officials decided it might not be a bad idea to redraw Harris County flood plain maps — and now, after three years of work, the new maps are out. Sure, big deal, right? Well, yeah, if you live in or own one of the 10,000 structures that have been added to the flood plain, it could be a pretty big thing.

A day after FEMA rejected the city of Houson's request for $2.7 million to pay for debris pick-up from Hurricane Rita, he agency said yesterday it will give the Houston area $14.5 million in hurricane-related grants.

As bad as Monday's flooding was for people who had water in their houses, the city's improved drainage system proved that it's working by helping contain some of the water in the area with the heaviest rainfall, the Chronicle reports today. The article focuses on Sims Bayou, a part of which has been widened — though the project won't be finished until 2009, it saved between 500 and 1,000 nearby houses Monday, the Harris County...

After four wet days, officials say conditions are right for flooding today if Houston gets heavy rain concentrated in an hour or so. There's been as much as 17 inches of rain since Sunday morning in some parts of the area, and though the bayous haven't overflowed, they are elevated.