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</div><div class="w650 h366 image media primary"><div class="image-wrapper"><img src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f7c54870d2eb49182d8bb9b650011e27" width="650" height="366"></div><p class="caption">This image has been shared all over social media. But all is not what it seems. Picture: Nickolay Lamm/StorageFront<span class="image-source"><em>Source:Supplied</em></span></p></div></div></div><p class="description">NOTHING has so terrifyingly summed up the flooding in Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey than this picture.</p><div class="story-content"><p>It shows Delta planes purported to be parked at one of Houston&#x2019;s two major airports, floating in dangerously high flood waters. The image has been shared over and over on social media.</p><div class="w650 h366 image media"><div class="image-wrapper"><img src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f7c54870d2eb49182d8bb9b650011e27" width="650" height="366" alt="This image has been shared all over social media. But all is not what it seems. Picture: Nickolay Lamm/StorageFront"></div><p class="caption">This image has been shared all over social media. But all is not what it seems. Picture: Nickolay Lamm/StorageFront<span class="image-source"><em>Source:Supplied</em></span></p></div><p>But while the flooding in Houston and other parts of Texas has been devastating, this dramatic photo is not. It is fake.</p><p>The image is actually a simulation put together in 2013 by Climate Central &#x2014; an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change &#x2014; to show what would happen if sea levels were to rise 7.6m, an amount that could occur by 2100 in a worst-case scenario according to some estimates.</p><p>And it isn&#x2019;t even portraying a Houston airport. It is a mock-up depicting New York&#x2019;s LaGuardia Airport, serving as a warning following Hurricane Sandy, which struck New York City in October 2012.</p><p>&#x201C;Hurricane Sandy should serve as a wakeup call to officials in charge of other low-lying airports across the country, since the latest climate science shows coastal airports face a growing danger from storm-surge impacts such as sea levels rise,&#x201D; <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/coastal-us-airports-face-increasing-threat-from-sea-level-rise-16126" title="www.climatecentral.org">the article, published by Climate Central on June 18 2013, read</a>.</p><p>Several people on Twitter shared the image with the hashtags #Houston, #Hurricane and #Harvey.</p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/fire-ants-band-together-in-stinging-horror-rafts-to-escape-harvey-floodwaters/news-story/f1dc31de849be883e78f1f8c108f7547">Fire ants band together in stinging horror rafts to escape Harvey floodwaters</a></p><div class="twitter media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Houston airport... when the tail is almost submerged,  you know it's deep!...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HarveyFlood?src=hash">#HarveyFlood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HoustonStrong?src=hash">#HoustonStrong</a> <br>Damn bro <a href="https://twitter.com/JoseRapunxel">@JoseRapunxel</a> be safe. <a href="https://t.co/7T5zv1c57S">pic.twitter.com/7T5zv1c57S</a></p>— Showoff Swagga® (@ShowoffSwagga) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShowoffSwagga/status/902320145426636800">August 29, 2017</a></blockquote> </div><div class="twitter media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Houston airport is now the new Houston port! <a href="https://t.co/JdOr4coqIb">pic.twitter.com/JdOr4coqIb</a></p>— isi (@GutierrezIsi) <a href="https://twitter.com/GutierrezIsi/status/902283775341584387">August 28, 2017</a></blockquote> </div><div class="twitter media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You will definitely want to call your airline about delays if you have a flight out of either <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Houston?src=hash">#Houston</a> airport today <a href="https://t.co/ZyY7kZGXQb">pic.twitter.com/ZyY7kZGXQb</a></p>— John Tyler (@johntylertweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/johntylertweets/status/902249750409482241">August 28, 2017</a></blockquote> </div><p>Hurricane Harvey was the fiercest hurricane to hit the US in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961&#x2019;s Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record.</p>
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