On August 26, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport, Texas as a Category
3 hurricane. Shortly after its second landfall in Holiday Beach, Texas, winds weakened
as did the speed of the hurricane. Over the next two days, the stalled hurricane dropped
>24.5 trillion gallons and >50 in. of rain, causing widespread flooding, flooding >200 k homes, and causing $180 billion in damage. Particularly affected was the city of
Houston and its 6.6 million inhabitants, where nearly 1/3 of the city was underwater
on September 1 [
[1]
].- National Weather Service
Major Hurricane Harvey.
http://www.weather.gov/crp/hurricane_harvey
Date: August 25–29, 2017
Date accessed: December 28, 2017
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Publication History
Published online: January 04, 2018
Accepted:
January 3,
2018
Received:
December 29,
2017
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