Yeah, when it entered the Carribean, it was a Category Five. But when it finally reached Texas it was a low Cat 1/Tropical Storm.
Its biggest damage was rain, and lots of it.
Unless they’re pimping their latest global warming funding grant, Hurricane specialists would say, “Yup, it was a hurricane.”
Journalists are so stupid.
This was much more of a wind event, far west of Houston, than it was a water/flooding event.
A friend of ours runs several landscaping crews, out of the Sealy/Wallis area and said he’s never seen anything like it, for a Cat 1 ... huge, established trees (pecans, etc) uprooted, and, downed, everywhere.