It has been six years and 21 days since the basement at Houston's City Hall was left flooded and unusable, according to Mayor Turner, but now, with the help of FEMA, the cellar is fully functional.
The basement in Houston's City Hall building has reopened after Hurricane Harvey left it flooded and damaged six years ago.Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and a host of City of Houston employees celebrated the long-awaited remodel of the City Hall basement, which was gutted by Hurricane Harvey flood waters.
Mud and debris made the basement unusable. Fortunately, Turner said, a quick-thinking city employee managed to save all the framed photographs of past Houston mayors that have long hung in the basement hallway.The new, fully refurbished basement has portable furniture that can quickly be moved if flood waters threaten again.