HURRICANE HARVEY Due to Hurricane Harvey, in a four-day period, many areas received more than 40 inches of rain as the system meandered over eastern Texas and with its peak accumulations of 51.88 inches, Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the contiguous United States. The resulting floods prompted more than 15,000 rescues, displaced more than 32,000 people, and inundated hundreds of thousands of...
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