CONTACT FILED: TROPICAL STORM-ALLISON
THE GREAT FLOOD OF 2001. (ROLL #2) Tropical Depression Allison Friday night rains flooded Houston 6/9/01. View looking east along Buffalo Bayou position above Heights/Waugh Drive. Note the Mecom Fountain at lower right. Chronicle/DeSoto. HOUCHRON CAPTION (07/15/2001): Treetops peek from the cafe au lait waters of Buffalo Bayou, which inundated city parkland from Shepherd to downtown Houston. Most of the waterside park facilities are designed to withstand flooding. But hiking trails along the bayou sustained about $10,000 damage, and the Gus Wortham Fountain near Allen Parkway, lower right, will require a new pump costing about $3,000. Downtown, fountains at Tranquillity Park sustained about $500,000 damage. Buffalo Bayou crested at 41 feet – about a foot above the 100-year flood stage – at 5:30 a.m. June 9.