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  "id": "2017-08-25-university-of-houston-hurricane-harvey",
  "slug": "university-of-houston-hurricane-harvey-2017-08-25",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Houston",
    "shortName": "UH",
    "state": "TX",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UH ALERT",
    "enrollment": 46000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2017-08-25",
    "endDate": "2017-08-30",
    "type": "hurricane",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "headline": "Floodwater enters a bayou-side dorm's first floor; about 140 residents evacuate mid-storm",
    "headlinePublic": "Floodwater enters a bayou-side dorm's first floor; about 140 residents evacuate mid-storm",
    "summary": "[Hurricane Harvey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey) made landfall near Rockport, Texas late on August 25, 2017 and stalled over the Houston metropolitan area for five days, dropping more than 50 inches of rain in some neighborhoods. The University of Houston used UH ALERT, its [multi-channel emergency notification system](https://alerts.uh.edu/about/), to close the campus by 1 PM CDT on Friday August 25 and ultimately to [evacuate approximately 140 students from a bayou-adjacent residence hall](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/08/28/a-disastrous-start-to-the-school-year-students-evacuated-after-being-stranded-by-hurricane-harvey/) on Sunday August 27 as floodwater began entering the first floor.",
    "outcome": "No on-campus fatalities. Approximately 140 students moved out of an off-campus housing complex backing onto a bayou as water rose into the first floor; 75 additional students were evacuated from the UH-Victoria campus to UH main campus before the storm. The university remained closed through Wednesday, August 30, 2017. About 2,000 of UH's 8,000 residential students were on campus through the weekend.",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
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      "verbatimText": "On August 29, 2017, City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner approved a curfew from midnight until 5am August 30, 2017. This security alert is to remind the UH Community of the need to be safe in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.\n\nIf you have any questions or general concerns, please direct them to harvey2017@uh.edu or police@uh.edu.\n\nIf you are in need of immediate police assistance, contact UHPD at 713-743-3333 or dial 911.\n\nBe safe.\n\nUniversity\nof Houston Security Alerts are archived at www.uh.edu/police/securityalerts",
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  "context": "[Hurricane Harvey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey) made landfall near Rockport, Texas, late on August 25, 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane and then stalled over the greater Houston region for nearly five days, producing the heaviest U.S. rainfall total ever recorded for a single storm, more than 60 inches in some locations. The University of Houston, an urban R1 with approximately 46,000 students and 8,000 in residential housing, used its [UH ALERT multi-channel emergency notification system](https://alerts.uh.edu/about/) to close the campus by 1 PM CDT on Friday August 25, well ahead of the worst rainfall. Classes had begun only four days earlier, on August 21. By Sunday August 27, the [Washington Post reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/08/28/a-disastrous-start-to-the-school-year-students-evacuated-after-being-stranded-by-hurricane-harvey/) that university officials had moved approximately 140 students from an off-campus housing complex that backed onto a bayou after water began entering the first floor. About 75 additional students had already been evacuated from UH's Victoria campus to the main Houston campus before the storm; many were among the roughly 2,000 residential students who rode out the storm on the main campus. UH dining halls remained open continuously to feed students unable to leave. The university [remained closed through Wednesday August 30](https://www.uh.edu/provost/harvey/) and reopened on Thursday August 31, with classes resuming after Labor Day on Tuesday September 5. The case is significant for this archive because it documents how a large urban R1 used a modern multi-channel mass-notification system to manage a multi-day weather event affecting tens of thousands of students, including a within-storm relocation of residents from a bayou-adjacent dorm, a dynamic that mid-storm SMS alerting made possible.",
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    "UH used UH ALERT to issue a sequence of pre-storm closure, mid-storm tornado-warning shelter-in-place, and intra-campus relocation messages over a five-day window",
    "Approximately 140 students were relocated from a bayou-adjacent off-campus housing complex during the storm itself",
    "UH dining halls remained open continuously to feed roughly 2,000 stranded residential students",
    "75 students had already been evacuated from UH-Victoria to the main Houston campus before the storm, placing them in the path of catastrophic flooding",
    "Total campus closure was approximately one full week, with classes resuming after Labor Day"
  ],
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  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Hurricane Harvey - Wikipedia",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey",
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    },
    {
      "title": "UH ALERT Emergency Notification System - University of Houston",
      "url": "https://alerts.uh.edu/about/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Faculty Resources for Hurricane Harvey - University of Houston",
      "url": "https://www.uh.edu/provost/harvey/",
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    {
      "title": "A disastrous start to the school year: Students evacuated after being stranded by Hurricane Harvey - Washington Post",
      "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/08/28/a-disastrous-start-to-the-school-year-students-evacuated-after-being-stranded-by-hurricane-harvey/",
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