Imelda Already Earning Comparisons To Harvey, 3-Day Rainfall Totals As High As 44.41 Inches

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ore evidence we are in the age of climate impacts.

Weather.com:

Tropical Depression Imelda is pounding part of Texas with rainfall measured in feet, not inches, reminding some of the record-smashing rain from Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Vidor, Texas, Police Chief Rod Carroll told The Weather Channel Thursday morning that flooding in the town was “worse during this storm than it was during Hurricane Harvey.”

“We have many areas that are underwater that were not previously underwater,” Carroll said, referring to Harvey’s flooding in Vidor, about 85 miles east-northeast of downtown Houston. That’s a jarring statement.

While Imelda’s flooding impacts may be worse than Harvey in some parts of Texas, Harvey was a $125-billion disaster, the nation’s second-costliest tropical cyclone behind only Katrina, because of its massive flooding rainfall, storm surge and wind damage from its Category 4 landfall.


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As early Thursday afternoon, an area from Montgomery County, north of downtown Houston, into Liberty, Chambers, Jefferson, Orange, southern Jasper and southern Newton counties was estimated to have picked up 20 inches or more from Imelda. Parts of Matagorda and southern Galveston counties also picked up over 20 inches of rain.

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https://climatecrocks.com/2019/09/19/imelda-already-earning-comparison-to-harvey/

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1. I was out in the rain earlier today

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