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Hurricane Harvey has been called a “500-year flood” — a flood event that has a one-in-500 chance of occurring in any given year in that location. Hundreds of thousands of people live in flood-prone cities such as Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and New York. Here’s a look at how 500-year floods could affect them.
Among the confirmed dead was a family who was swept away while trying to flee the storm and a 30-year veteran of the Houston Police Department who found himself trapped in floodwaters as he made his way into a rescue shift.
Alarming amounts of rain continued to batter Texas, while the area from Houston to southwest Louisiana is expected to suffer “catastrophic and life-threatening” floods for the rest of the week.
The National Weather Service forecast heavy rains spreading northeast toward western Kentucky, which may lead to flash floods and imperil a new swath of the country.
Mobile kitchen units, truckloads of tools and thousands of supplies are ready to help, but there is one problem: They are hundreds of miles away from Houston.
For those affected by Harvey, every day blurs into the same long surreal state of being physically wet, of feeling, hearing, smelling and even tasting water that was not only flooding roads and invading homes but inundating people.
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