Other than the inland rainfall totals it looks fairly tame as far as a Carolina hurricane. When I was living in Greensboro, Hugo was still a hurricane there after making landfall in Charleston, to put things into perspective.
So, what’s the point of this exercise? It’s fairly compact, but intense as far as rainfall. Anyone interested enough to follow the storm news knows that.
My understanding is that typically a hurricane will lose energy as it travels inland and is deprived of the warm water from the ocean. In Harvey’s case, weather patterns kept it hovering over the Houston area where it could still sustain itself by drawing energy from the Gulf.
I know heavy winds were experienced in Corpus Christi but the big problem in Houston is that incredible amount of rain that never seemed to end.