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<p>As attention focused on the chemical plant, which Thursday sat under about three metres of water following Harvey's relentless rains, other areas battered by the storm awoke to lingering flooding and the misery left behind.</p><figure class="media  media--photo social--sharing"data-fm-image-sharing="twitterTag:'smh'"data-event-tracking-enabled='false' data-track-data='{"name_component":"Inline_Image"}' itemscope itemprop="image" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject">
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