Hurricane Harvey is tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area. read more
Last Wednesday night, August 23, Harvey was a tropical depression, but after just eight overnight hours it was forming a hurricane eye wall. read more
• The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund was established by Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston and is administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. • The Houston Food Bank, the Galveston County Food Bank and the Food Bank of Corpus Christi are accepting online donations. read more
Days of heavy rain may fall in some part of Texas from Harvey, from Aug. 25, potentially through Sept. 1. (MORE: Interactive Harvey Forecast Path) 50. Inches of rain is the top-end forecast rainfall amount mentioned by the National Hurricane Center with Harvey through its odyssey near/over Texas. That number could go higher. read more