Texas News Texas Senate Unanimously Passes Hurricane Harvey Relief Bills Worth $1.8 Billion KWBU | By Laura Rice Published March 21, 2019 at 2:26 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:03 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) The Houston area has been prone to flooding long before Hurricane Harvey. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took this aerial photo after a flood in 2015. The money, which would also would go toward flood-prevention projects. would come from the state’s $11 billion rainy day fund.