1 Case Study The Storm During the overnight hours of August 25th and 26th, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the southeast Texas coast , about 30 miles (48.3 km) northeast of Corpus Christi. By this time the former tropical depression had strengthened to a category 4 storm. It packed wind speeds of 130 miles per hour (215 km/h) and an atmospheric pressure of 937 mbar (27.7 inHg). [1] In its wake, Hurricane Harvey tied with Hurricane Katrina of 2005 as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion in damage, primarily from catastrophic flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas. [2] In a four-day period, many areas received more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain as the system slowly meandered over eastern Texas and adjacent waters, c

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