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  • Weather service confirms a new record 64 inches of rain fell during Harvey

    09/28/2017 8:08:13 AM PDT · by Snickering Hound · 15 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 9-28-2017 | John D. Harden
    The National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday that a record 64.58 inches of rain fell during Hurricane Harvey in Nederland near Beaumont during the storm’s five-day onslaught. The city’s record rainfall is the heaviest rainfall ever logged in the U.S. during a tropical storm, breaking Hawaii's 1950 record of 52 inches. The record was captured near Jack Brooks Regional Airport. Nederland is in Jefferson County — a county east of Houston where four people died, more than 74,000 homes were impacted and at least $73 million in damages to public property occurred. Just a little more than a month since Harvey...