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Time lapse of Hurricane Harvey Cat 4 from 2017.

Did you know these facts about Hurricane Harvey?

✔️Houston received 60.5” of rain just over four days.
✔️Two feet of rain fell in the first 24 hrs
✔️Hurricane Harvey made landfall 3x in six days.
✔️Over 300,000 homes were damaged (30% Harvey related damage, 10% had water inside, 15% were destroyed).
✔️Over 39,000 people went to shelters
✔️Thousands more were displaced but stayed with friends, family and neighbors, (there no official count).
✔️one month after Harvey, over 60,000 people were still displaced.
✔️Nearly 10% of those displaced were still displaced a year later.
✔️Harvey impacted 13 million people from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.
✔️88 people died from the storm.
✔️One million vehicles were totaled.
✔️Tens of thousands of volunteers assisted with relief, (there is no official number).
✔️Thousands of pets were rescued during Harvey, over 3,000 by one shelter.
✔️Infared measurements showed earth was compressed about half an inch from the 34 Trillion gallons of water.
✔️Houston sank 2cm as a result of the water weight.
✔️738,000 households registered for assistance with FEMA.
✔️Approximately 1 in 6 homes had flood insurance (~17% homeowners)
✔️Average Houston FEMA payout: $4,400 max is $33,300.
✔️Average NFIP flood insurance payout 2017: $91,735
✔️FEMA states “a single inch of water in average home can cause more than $26,000 in damage”.
✔️Equal to 127 Billion tons of water or 26,000 Superdomes filled with water)
✔️It was one of the heaviest precipitation events ever recorded in human history and a record for a single storm for the continental US.

Hopefully Hurricane Dorian breaks apart and spares folks the experience of a hurricane.