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<div class="pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column"> <span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jason-samenow/"><span itemprop="name">Jason Samenow</span></a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/angela-fritz/"><span itemprop="name">Angela Fritz</span></a> and <span itemprop="name">Greg Porter</span></span> <span class="pb-byline-tool-mobile"> <span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jason-samenow/"><span itemprop="name">Jason Samenow</span></a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/angela-fritz/"><span itemprop="name">Angela Fritz</span></a> and <span itemprop="name">Greg Porter</span></span> <span class="pb-tool email"><a href="mailto:jason.samenow@washpost.com;angela.fritz@washpost.com;portahouse@gmail.com?subject=Reader feedback for 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(Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)</span> </div> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p><em>(This story, published Sunday morning, will be updated throughout the day.)</em></p> <p>The worst fears of flooding have been realized with Harvey. Close to three feet of rain has already fallen in Southeast Texas, and there’s still more to come. It’s the most extreme rainfall the region has ever witnessed.</p> <p>On Sunday evening, brand new bands of torrential rain were forming southwest of Houston and appeared on track to strike the city overnight. Rainfall rates will almost certainly exceed three inches per hour over the already-submerged city. That threat prompted the National Weather Service to <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/901962935412678657">reissue the flash flood emergency</a> — the strongest flood warning it can issue — in effect through around 1 a.m. Central Time.</p> <p>Two-day rainfall totals have reached or exceeded 20 inches across the entire Houston metro area. Some locations are approaching 30 inches. The swift inundation of water has turned rivers, bayous and streams into lakes — including those that run through the city of Houston itself.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-video"> <div class="posttv-video-embed powa" data-ad-bar="1" data-aspect-ratio="0.5625" data-blurb="1" data-live="0" data-object-id="59a3d9dfe4b0197db39a0d2e" data-org="wapo" data-playthrough="1" data-uuid="46691700-8bce-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953" data-youtube-id="14l7soRiu0o"> <script async="" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/player/prod/PoWaLoaderWapo.js?_=20180208"></script> </div> <div class="inline-video-caption"> <span class="pb-caption">Hundreds of families found shelter at Wedgewood Elementary School in Friendswood, Tex., after Tropical Storm Harvey's floodwaters forced them out of their homes. (Zoeann Murphy,Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)</span> </div> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>“Catastrophic flooding in the Houston metropolitan area is expected to worsen,” the National Weather Service said Sunday. It <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS/status/901832717070983169">added</a>: “This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced.”</p> <p>“I know for a fact this is the worst flood Houston has ever experienced,” Patrick Blood, Weather Service meteorologist, <a href="https://twitter.com/_SusanCarroll/status/901759554060521472">told the Houston Chronicle</a>.</p> <p channel="wp.com" class="interstitial-link"> <i> [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-extent-of-harveys-aftermath-starts-to-come-into-chilling-focus/2017/08/27/1b2b184a-8b56-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html">Full extent of Harvey’s aftermath starts to come into chilling focus</a>] </i> </p> <p>The Weather Service said this August <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/901889634724192257">had become Houston’s wettest month in recorded history</a> due to the storm. At the Weather Service office serving Houston in Dickinson, Tex. <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/901782033197916161">24.1 inches of rain fell 24 hours</a>.</p> <p>The Weather Service said the “majority” of rivers and bayous around Houston were at record levels. <a href="https://twitter.com/EricBlake12/status/901799003649703939">Some were exceeding previous records by 10 feet</a>.</p> <p>Rainfall from Harvey in Harris County, the third most populous in the country and home to Houston, had exceeded the amount from Tropical Storm Allison, in half the amount of time (two to three days, rather than five, the <a href="http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/metwatch_mpd_multi.php?md=0743&amp;yr=2017">Weather Service said Sunday afternoon</a>. Before Harvey, Tropical Storm Allison was considered the worst flood on record in the Houston region.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="cc7001d083"></a> <img class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/Harvey-rainmap-j.png&amp;w=1484" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/Harvey-rainmap-j.png&amp;w=480" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/Harvey-rainmap-j.png" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/Harvey-rainmap-j.png&amp;w=60"/><br/> <span class="pb-caption">Estimate rainfall totals from Harvey as of Sunday afternoon. (Jordan Tessler)</span> </div> <p>The onslaught will continue into the week. Harvey is forecast to remain parked over Southeast Texas through at least Tuesday, pummeling the region with more rain bands.</p> <p>The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center is calling for an <em>additional</em> 15 to 25 inches of rain over the middle and upper Texas coast, including the Houston area, during the next several days. The National Hurricane Center said isolated storm rainfall totals could reach 50 inches, which would <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelRLowry/status/901837570660761601">rival some of the most extreme rain events in U.S. history</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/901842030292291585">break the state rainfall record in Texas</a>.</p> <p>A <a href="https://twitter.com/pppapin/status/901762538785865732">relentless band of heavy rain</a> sat nearly stationary over Houston and its surrounding suburbs Saturday night. By Sunday morning, the effects of hour after hour of drenching rainfall started to take their <a href="https://twitter.com/hcfcd/status/901700260464128001">toll</a>, with widespread reports of high water on roadways. Bands of heavy rain continued to pivot through the Houston area Sunday afternoon but became somewhat more intermittent.</p> <p>The National Weather Service did <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/901765351960190976">not mince words</a> about the danger of this unprecedented situation. The office issued multiple flash-flood emergencies, which <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/901834304531161092">extended into Sunday evening</a>, shattering <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceCityWX/status/901665252001054724">the precedent</a> for issuance of such warnings locally.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="4434072f72"></a> <img class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/ecmwf_tprecip_houston_21.png&amp;w=1484" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/ecmwf_tprecip_houston_21.png&amp;w=480" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/ecmwf_tprecip_houston_21.png" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/ecmwf_tprecip_houston_21.png&amp;w=60"/><br/> <span class="pb-caption">The European weather forecast model is predicting up to 20 inches of additional rain this week. (weatherbell.com)</span> </div> <p>At least <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/harvey-delivers-heavy-damage-as-it-batters-texas-coast/2017/08/27/c35ab7c0-8ae6-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_harvey-1120am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.e44ce4fb1e85">five deaths have already been blamed on the storm</a>, and more than 1,000 water rescues have taken place in the Houston area as of Sunday afternoon. Local officials are pleading with the general public to not travel and to make sure they <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/901759465086701569">access their roof</a> if the water rises too high in their homes rather than shelter in their attic.</p> <p>“This disaster’s going to be a landmark event,” Brock Long, FEMA administrator, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “This is a storm that the United States has not seen yet.”</p> <p>So much rain has fallen that is has been <a href="https://twitter.com/SheriffEd_HCSO/status/901751435909619712">extremely hard for first responders to keep up </a> with the <a href="https://twitter.com/GHC911/status/901863003582324738">growing onslaught of rescue requests</a>.</p> <p>“We are facing a catastrophic multibillion-dollar loss,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveBowenWx/status/901817070161100801">tweeted Steve Bowen</a>, a meteorologist at reinsurer Aon Benfield.</p> <p>Perhaps even more frightening, computer model forecasts are showing the very real possibility that Harvey will move back over the Gulf of Mexico Monday night and Tuesday, when it could restrengthen modestly. It may make a second landfall near Houston on Wednesday, with rain continuing into Thursday and even Friday.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="0f1a09b7e0"></a> <img class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/212153_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind-1.png&amp;w=1484" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/212153_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind-1.png&amp;w=480" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/212153_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind-1.png" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2017/08/212153_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind-1.png&amp;w=60"/><br/> <span class="pb-caption">(National Hurricane Center)</span> </div> <div class="inline-content inline-video"> <div class="posttv-video-embed powa" data-ad-bar="1" data-aspect-ratio="0.5625" data-blurb="1" data-live="0" data-object-id="59a3076de4b0e0e6b33b0383" data-org="wapo" data-playthrough="1" data-uuid="d5252c1e-8b50-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953" data-youtube-id="mMlEDtwIWug"> <script async="" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/player/prod/PoWaLoaderWapo.js?_=20180208"></script> </div> <div class="inline-video-caption"> <span class="pb-caption">Residents of Houston on Aug. 27 assessed the damage that tropical storm Harvey has caused to their city. (Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post)</span> </div> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>In addition to the heavy rain, embedded thunderstorms have spawned more than a dozen tornadoes across the region, adding to the list of hazards brought on by Harvey. In fact, the Weather Service had issued <a href="https://twitter.com/akrherz/status/901847725356064768">more tornado warnings on (each of) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday</a> than on any previous single day on record, for a <a href="https://twitter.com/akrherz/status/901884959694217216">total of 123 warnings</a>.</p> <p>This storm is unfortunately breaking all the wrong precedents. Things will only continue to get worse over the next 24 to 48 hours as more areas of the region receive overwhelming amounts of water with nowhere for it to go.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/c/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/css/d9cb19704f.css?_=f2022" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/p/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/style.css?_=512fa" rel="stylesheet"/> <script>window.pbDeferredSSISingle=window.pbDeferredSSISingle||new Array;</script> <div class="pb-container"> <div class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-id="gallery/gallery" data-feature-name="no-name" data-pb-feature-config="gallery/gallery" data-pb-fingerprint="0fh3taXsipu" id="fVVe782Ko8Tvoq"> <div class="wp-volt-gal unprocessed wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide" data-blurb="The hurricane, which has weakened to a tropical storm, is the first Category 4 storm to hit the United States since Charley in 2004. 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Brown Convention Center." data-credit="Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/Harvey_95094-eb47d.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4032" data-ratio="1.333" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="1f8b3c54-8b55-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A woman carries her child into a shelter in downtown Houston." data-credit="LM Otero/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/Harvey_03810-e6a68.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5382" data-ratio="1.649" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="250acf78-8b55-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Terranysha Ferguson holds her son, Christian Phillips as she sits with the rest of her family at the George R. Brown Convention Center." data-credit="Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_Houston_85982-85d07.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2500" data-ratio="1.413" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017 " data-uuid="4f81de5c-8b57-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A couple of evacuees carry their dogs into the the George R. 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This is surreal. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HoustonFlood?src=hash">#HoustonFlood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> <a href="https://t.co/zK9WojsMAH">pic.twitter.com/zK9WojsMAH</a></p> <p>— Matthew Sitkowski (@MattSitkowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattSitkowski/status/901782145814978560">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Daylight reveals the extent of flooding in Houston <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hurricane?src=hash">#hurricane</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/harvey?src=hash">#harvey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Houston?src=hash">#Houston</a> buffalobayoupark <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/flood?src=hash">#flood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/flooding?src=hash">#flooding</a> #… <a href="https://t.co/YCyGkAJg6M">https://t.co/YCyGkAJg6M</a> <a href="https://t.co/wAYU7zZz7G">pic.twitter.com/wAYU7zZz7G</a></p> <p>— DoubleHorn Photo (@DoubleHornPhoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/DoubleHornPhoto/status/901782532399800320">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">More light reveals the flooding in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Houston?src=hash">#Houston</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hurricane?src=hash">#hurricane</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/flood?src=hash">#flood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/flooding?src=hash">#flooding</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/weather?src=hash">#weather</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hurricane?src=hash">#hurricane</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/texas?src=hash">#texas</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/water?src=hash">#water</a> … <a href="https://t.co/IgzYIZX1aP">https://t.co/IgzYIZX1aP</a> <a href="https://t.co/mMHGyBgQdW">pic.twitter.com/mMHGyBgQdW</a></p> <p>— DoubleHorn Photo (@DoubleHornPhoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/DoubleHornPhoto/status/901781313455316992">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Houston metro quickly becoming just an extension of the Gulf of Mexico. We wish we could report the worst is over, but we have a ways to go. <a href="https://t.co/q74k2YYOE4">pic.twitter.com/q74k2YYOE4</a></p> <p>— WeatherOptics (@weatheroptics) <a href="https://twitter.com/weatheroptics/status/901804813893152768">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Water pouring in the front door of channel 11 on Sunday morning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/khou11?src=hash">#khou11</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Houston?src=hash">#Houston</a> <a href="https://t.co/X5kDrCpdXN">pic.twitter.com/X5kDrCpdXN</a></p> <p>— The Bishop (@BillBishopKHOU) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillBishopKHOU/status/901800775395016704">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Downtown Houston <a href="https://t.co/DEW8jkBGpZ">pic.twitter.com/DEW8jkBGpZ</a></p> <p>— Lorenzo (@juniior0522) <a href="https://twitter.com/juniior0522/status/901803492377026561">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/chitakhou">@chitakhou</a> I45 hogan bridge <a href="https://t.co/GS1P69ipME">pic.twitter.com/GS1P69ipME</a></p> <p>— Robert Lopez (@find_rlopezjr) <a href="https://twitter.com/find_rlopezjr/status/901801419673567233">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Bad to worse in Houston. Cars floating, high water rescues, and drivers abandoning cars. Turn around, don't drown. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kens5eyewintess?src=hash">#kens5eyewintess</a> <a href="https://t.co/Cv1VCQSugQ">pic.twitter.com/Cv1VCQSugQ</a></p> <p>— Jared Silverman (@JaredKENS5) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaredKENS5/status/901807715177168898">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Aerial video shows Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston as Harvey causes severe flooding in Texas <a href="https://t.co/iJHbYTFT7I">https://t.co/iJHbYTFT7I</a> <br/>Video via <a href="https://twitter.com/avmidas">@avmidas</a> <a href="https://t.co/cVV8fI63fs">pic.twitter.com/cVV8fI63fs</a></p> <p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/901818498908905472">August 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p channel="wp.com" class="interstitial-link"> <i> [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/27/heres-what-houston-looks-like-as-harvey-floods-submerge-the-city/?utm_term=.931593b5a661">Here’s what Houston looks like as Harvey floods submerge the city</a>] </i> </p> <div class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/c/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/css/d9cb19704f.css?_=f2022" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/p/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/style.css?_=512fa" rel="stylesheet"/> <script>window.pbDeferredSSISingle=window.pbDeferredSSISingle||new Array;</script> <div class="pb-container"> <div class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-id="gallery/gallery" data-feature-name="no-name" data-pb-feature-config="gallery/gallery" data-pb-fingerprint="0fh3taXsipu" id="fVVe782Ko8Tvoq"> <div class="wp-volt-gal unprocessed wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide" data-blurb="The hurricane, which has weakened to a tropical storm, is the first Category 4 storm to hit the United States since Charley in 2004. 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" data-credit="Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_21324-d22cf.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5184" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="446f64f0-8b3c-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A gauge shows the depth of water at an underpass on Interstate 10 at over eleven feet." data-credit="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/839840238.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="e54f339a-8b6f-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Area residents use a canoe to rescue motorists stranded on Interstate 45." data-credit="Richard Carson/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-27T221955Z_1792683123_RC16378915F0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.516" data-title="  Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="64e8e748-8b77-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Residents wade through floodwaters in Houston." data-credit="David J. 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Shea/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_RW2B5.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.525" data-title="  Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="aa096912-8b6b-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People watch heavy rain from the relative safety of a flooded gas station in Houston." data-credit="Charlie Riedel/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_10243-d1c95.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5040" data-ratio="1.599" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="ef7667e6-8b6d-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Volunteers rescue people from their flooded homes along Beamer Road in Houston." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170827Hurricane19793.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5776" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="3f5c924c-8b98-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Vehicles are abandoned in flood water along Beamer Road in Houston." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170827Hurricane19789.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5794" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="1c8241d6-8b98-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="People walk through flood water near interstate 10 in Houston." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170827Hurricane19783.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="3969" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="ff121fde-8b58-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="A resident floats pets and belongings on an air mattress along Mercury drive in Houston." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170827Hurricane19776.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5766" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017 " data-uuid="e2411b80-8b58-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A resident of Bayou on the Bend watches the first floor flood as the Buffalo Bayou continues to rise in Houston." data-credit="Brian Davidson/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/839922632.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4914" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="eea314b0-8b6b-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man walks through floodwaters as he evacuates from his home in Houston." data-credit="Charlie Riedel/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_30707-1806e.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4792" data-ratio="1.791" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="b5660e54-8b44-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Waters rush from a large sinkhole on Highway FM 762 in Rosenberg, near Houston." data-credit="John Mone/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/Harvey_00104-64d00.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3952" data-ratio="1.533" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="6ee4419c-8b69-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Neighbors are using their personal boats to rescue flooded residents in Friendswood." data-credit="Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Harvey_84071-85967.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5472" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="5d50d4a6-8b5d-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Texas National Guard soldiers aid residents in Houston." data-credit="1Lt. 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data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/CORRECTION_Harvey_98727-cefef.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1600" data-ratio="1.508" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="60bff1e8-8b72-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Downtown Houston is seen in rain and clouds." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170827Hurricane19755.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="4981" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="91199994-8b58-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Hurricane winds in Corpus Christi, Tex., knocked a traffic light off its base." data-credit="Eric Gay/Associated Press" 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