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The ground beneath Southeast Texas is sinking: what every homeowner should know

The ground beneath Southeast Texas is sinking: what every homeowner should know
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Cracks in the walls. Doors that won’t close. Flooding that seems to get worse every year. For many Southeast Texas homeowners, those problems can feel unrelated. But experts say they can all be connected by a slow-moving process happening beneath the surface: land subsidence. Subsidence — the gra...

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