Nearly 72 hours after Hurricane Harvey came ashore as America’s strongest hurricane since 2004, the system continues to bring utter misery to Texans.

Harvey’s wind with gusts in excess of 130 mph has caused significant damage in a focused area around Rockport, Port Lavaca and Port Aransas where the eyewall came ashore at 10pm Thursday but the intense and incredibly persistent rainfall continues, causing extreme flooding across a vast area stretching hundreds of square miles.

Damage at the point of landfall on the middle Texas coast… video from Port Aransas South Jetty pic.twitter.com/sORnHluutl

— James Spann (@spann) August 27, 2017

The city of Houston, no stranger to flooding is likely in the midst of it’s biggest rainstorm and flooding event in history. The entire city is pretty much under water with many areas submerged by some 10-20ft.

Much of metro Houston has received 2 ft of rain with 2 days with some suburbs crippled by 35 inches!

*24-hour* radar of #Harvey catastrophic deluge Sat-Sun eve. Hard to comprehend heavy rain will continue falling on the watersheds for days. pic.twitter.com/hmfOLB3rrY

— Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) August 28, 2017

https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/901928809473114112

Buffalo Bayou in Houston. Unbelievable. #houwx #houstonflood #txwx #Harvey pic.twitter.com/grCKUmZYmr

— Mike Prendergast (@MPrendergastTX) August 27, 2017

Downtown #Houston this morning. Eerily similar to the morning of June 9, 2001 during Allison. Video: https://t.co/AV3JBYOS5O #Harvey pic.twitter.com/iywR6YAu5Y

— Jonathan Erdman (@wxjerdman) August 27, 2017

https://twitter.com/kevinselle/status/901817761160101888

View of downtown Houston right now, from Instagram https://t.co/7wSWxM1z9s pic.twitter.com/ffkDkSdOK1

— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) August 27, 2017

Houston, Texas freeway sign nearly submerged amid extreme flooding from #Harvey: https://t.co/JZvofyopoP pic.twitter.com/rInVl4Wxba

— ABC News (@ABC) August 27, 2017

https://twitter.com/MichaelRLowry/status/901837570660761601

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