Port Arthurs old MONTHLY rainfall record was 22.72 inches....they got 26.02 yesterday alone!!!
Normally, the East side is the dirty side.
According to the weather folks, it has trapped the dry air on the Louisiana side.
From weather forums, hurricane blogs and other thing I am jumping around to in the internet, it appears that the Beaumont/Port Arthur area has been hammered worse than Houston.
They had some of the rain and storm over the last five days as they are just NE of Houston. Now in the last two days, after their ground, creeks, rivers and bay are totally full, the balance of Harvey goes inland right on top of them. They may have more intense flood damage than anywhere else based upon early reports.