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#25 Houston’s bayous rose 52 feet above normal levels following heavy rains that lasted from December 6–9, 1935.

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#25 Houston’s bayous rose 52 feet above normal levels following heavy rains that lasted from December 6–9, 1935.

Houston Flood of 1935: Historical Photos depict the Magnitude and Devastation

#25 Houston’s bayous rose 52 feet above normal levels following heavy rains that lasted from December 6–9, 1935.

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←#24 Looking east over downtown, December 1935. White building at foreground is the criminal courthouse, where the back of Bayou Place is today. Structure at right-center is the farmer’s market, where Wortham Center is today.
#26 Waters from the 1935 event even reached into the Heights, flooding Harvard Street and turning the Harvard Food Market at the corner of 9th into a temporary island.→

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