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Not exact matches
When Hurricane Harvey blew into Texas last weekend, it
dumped more than 30 inches of
rain,
flooding Houston and large areas of southeastern Texas, while leaving thousands homeless or without power.
Hurricane Isaac is
dumping large amounts of
rain on New Orleans causing severe
flooding.
It could
dump more than 3 feet of
rain on the region — creating severe
flooding.
The report was published more than eight months before Hurricane Harvey
dumped torrential
rain on Texas, with resulting catastrophic
flooding.
The eight - day storm
dumped more than 17 inches of
rain, causing the Platte River to reach
flood levels higher than ever recorded.
Harvey ended up
dumping more than 50 inches of
rain, ultimately
flooding the entire city of Houston and displacing more than 32,000 people.
As I wrote while covering the extraordinary
flooding damage from Floyd in 1999, «Coast - skirting tropical storms often
dump their heaviest load of
rain to the north and west of the eye.»
The Category 1 hurricane was expected to
dump up to 15 inches of
rain, threatening
flooding that could breach levees in the heavily populated Rio Grande valley.
Fay's predictions changed every day and now it is parked off the coast up north and has
dumped more then 24 inches of
rain around Port St Lucie,
flooding homes.
When Hurricane Harvey reached Houston in August, it
dumped 51 inches of
rain,
flooding an estimated 150,000 structures across the region, and killing more than 80.
In July, thunderstorms
dumped more than six inches of
rain on Elicott City, Maryland in roughly two hours, causing flash
floods that upended cars and lives.
Because we may see really extreme precipitation events, with very powerful atmospheric rivers, that
dump a ton of
rain and put us in danger of devastating
floods, we need to continue investing in our
flood management infrastructure.
An extreme low - pressure system stalled and
dumped massive amounts of
rain across western Europe at the end of May and early June, causing major
flooding in France and Germany.
They also
dump rain on ships that
floods their holds with water, albeit slowly.