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900w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a03790013f4cf44ba7e5892/master/w_600,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-12.png 600w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a03790013f4cf44ba7e5892/master/w_450,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-12.png 450w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a03790013f4cf44ba7e5892/master/w_300,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-12.png 300w" sizes="(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" width="2500" height="1667" alt="" aria-hidden="true" layout="fill"></amp-img></figure></amp-carousel></figure></div></section><section><p>The aerial photographer Alex MacLean began flying in the early
nineteen-seventies, while studying architecture and urban planning at
Harvard&#x2019;s Graduate School of Design. He realized that with a relatively
inexpensive 35-mm. camera and a plane he could demonstrate spatial
relations between downtowns and suburbs, between transportation networks
and housing, between built and open space. Later, when he began his
career as a photographer, he used his aerial perch to showcase otherwise
unseen worlds, such as rooftop gardens and spas, and military-aircraft
junkyards. He photographed patterns, such as farmland tillage lines,
shipping containers stacked in tiers, and geometrically arranged beach
umbrellas. Many of his photos&#x2014;some more subtly than others&#x2014;are made out
of environmental concern. A series he shot in 2014 drives home the
awesome scale of tar-sands strip mines in Alberta, Canada. An ongoing
project documents no-till farming, a practice that reduces soil loss and
slows global warming.</p><figure class="ad"><amp-ad width="300" height="250" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/3379/newyorker.dart" json="{&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;partner&quot;:[&quot;amp&quot;],&quot;ctx_template&quot;:&quot;amp-article&quot;,&quot;ctx_page_slug&quot;:&quot;texas-post-hurricane-harvey-landscape-camera-four-seat-plane&quot;,&quot;cnt_tags&quot;:[&quot;texas-post-hurricane-harvey-landscape-camera-four-seat-plane&quot;,&quot;culture&quot;,&quot;photo-booth&quot;,&quot;Photos&quot;,&quot;Hurricane Harvey&quot;,&quot;Texas&quot;,&quot;Houston&quot;]}}"></amp-ad></figure>
<p>Last month, with funding from the <a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/">Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting</a>,
MacLean and I rented a Cessna 172&#xA0;four-seat airplane in Nashville, where a pilot he knows gave us a good deal. MacLean flew us
from there to southeast Texas. A month had passed since Hurricane Harvey
had made landfall. The aftermath of the storm&#x2014;expected to be the
costliest natural disaster in U.S. history&#x2014;had been photographed
exhaustively, with images of residents canoeing down flooded streets and
sorting through the wreckage of their water-logged homes. Alex wanted
something different: by photographing the region from above, he wanted
to capture what had made Texas so vulnerable, and why disaster planners,
in preparing for future storms,&#xA0;<em>can&#x2019;t ignore</em>&#xA0;the changes that climate
scientists say global warming is bringing.</p>
<p>Our first stop was Beaumont, on the Gulf Coast. The crew at the airport
there suggested that we fly over the nearby city of Vidor, where piles
of debris still lined entire residential blocks, awaiting removal by
contractors. We passed above a rising mountain of debris west of
Beaumont, where trucks were delivering materials they&#x2019;d carted away from
the insides of houses in the nearby suburbs of Bevil Oaks and Northwest
Forest. Nearly every house there required gutting.</p>
<figure tabindex="0" class="image"><amp-img src="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_2500,h_1667,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png" srcset="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_1800,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png 1800w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_1200,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png 1200w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_900,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png 900w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_600,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png 600w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_450,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png 450w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a038059963dc9417410be8b/master/w_300,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-01.png 300w" sizes="(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" width="2500" height="1667" alt="During times of extreme rain, such as Hurricane Harvey, Houston&#x2019;s Barker Reservoir (or, as part of it is called on the west side of the city, George Bush Park) impounds water from the larger river called Buffalo Bayou, in order to prevent flooding downstream." attribution="Photograph by Alex MacLean" aria-hidden="true" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption><div class="caption">During times of extreme rain, such as Hurricane Harvey, Houston&#x2019;s Barker Reservoir (or, as part of it is called on the west side of the city, George Bush Park) impounds water from the larger river called Buffalo Bayou, in order to prevent flooding downstream.</div><cite class="credit">Photograph by Alex MacLean</cite></figcaption></figure><p>We flew low over Barker Reservoir on our approach to West Houston
Airport. Pools of water still glistened in the normally dry basin.
Barker was designed to retain storm water, protecting Houston from
flooding. During Harvey, it didn&#x2019;t work as expected. Too much water
flowed into the basin, flooding subdivisions on the area&#x2019;s periphery.
Then, fearing that levees might be breached, water managers sought to
prevent even more disastrous flooding by opening Barker&#x2019;s spillway
gates, inundating already sodden neighborhoods downstream.</p>
<p>After Houston, Alex flew on without me to Rockport, where Harvey first
made landfall. Wind, not water, had caused most of the damage there.
A-hundred-and-thirty-mile-per-hour winds and swarms of tornadoes had
ripped roofs off buildings and knocked over mobile homes. Alex saw
worrisome signs for the future of development on the Gulf Coast. By
chance, he&#x2019;d arrived at high tide&#x2014;and at an unusually high one. In the
wealthy neighborhood of Key Allegro, seawater was lapping near the doors
of the expensive homes.</p><figure class="ad"><amp-ad width="300" height="250" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/3379/newyorker.dart" json="{&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;partner&quot;:[&quot;amp&quot;],&quot;ctx_template&quot;:&quot;amp-article&quot;,&quot;ctx_page_slug&quot;:&quot;texas-post-hurricane-harvey-landscape-camera-four-seat-plane&quot;,&quot;cnt_tags&quot;:[&quot;texas-post-hurricane-harvey-landscape-camera-four-seat-plane&quot;,&quot;culture&quot;,&quot;photo-booth&quot;,&quot;Photos&quot;,&quot;Hurricane Harvey&quot;,&quot;Texas&quot;,&quot;Houston&quot;]}}"></amp-ad></figure>
<figure tabindex="0" class="image"><amp-img src="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_2500,h_1667,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png" srcset="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_1800,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png 1800w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_1200,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png 1200w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_900,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png 900w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_600,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png 600w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_450,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png 450w,https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a036ba81c573b3f0dd144b4/master/w_300,c_limit/Grossman-MacLean-02.png 300w" sizes="(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" width="2500" height="1667" alt="In Bay City, located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Intercoastal Waterway, building codes require new homes to be built thirteen feet above mean sea level&#x2014;but that rule won&#x2019;t prevent damage from a direct hit by a storm and, with sea level rise, will become less effective every year." attribution="Photograph by Alex MacLean" aria-hidden="true" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption><div class="caption">In Bay City, located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Intercoastal Waterway, building codes require new homes to be built thirteen feet above mean sea level&#x2014;but that rule won&#x2019;t prevent damage from a direct hit by a storm and, with sea level rise, will become less effective every year.</div><cite class="credit">Photograph by Alex MacLean</cite></figcaption></figure></section></section></div></div><div class="paywall-truncated" amp-access="result = &apos;REQUIRE_LOGIN&apos; OR result = &apos;REQUIRE_ENTITLEMENT&apos;" amp-access-hide="true"><div class="article"><section><section></section></section></div><section class="paywall-notif"><div 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