Conservative cheerleader Matt Schlapp was on the news touting the great success of the Trump administration in "rolling back so many regulations." He might want to rethink that now. Gubmit never "got in the way" of business in Houston. With no zoning and little to no building regulations, business built the fourth largest US city in a low lying swamp and paved over thousands of acres of water-absorbing farm- and wetlands with concrete.  One of the first things that happened after Houston was settled is that it flooded, beginning a very long series of ever-larger floods. Harvey is not even the first to cause over a billion in damages. With no zoning, residents get to live close to, and now swim in the effluvium of, refineries and other industrial activities. The French-owned chemical plant now on fire spent millions of dollars, not on safety, but on lobbying Texas legislators to roll back safety regulations proposed by the Obama administration. 

Guess who will now supply the band-aid?