While the full impact from a storm with the power and enormity of Harvey is difficult to fathom and is still being calculated, the numbers below help to put it into perspective. 27 trillionThe estimated number of gallons of rain water dumped over Texas and Louisiana over the last six days. It’s nearly impossible to imagine a volume of water that enormous, but some tried to give it scope. The death toll has continued to rise in the days since Harvey made landfall and it’s expected to increase further. That’s now the greatest amount of rainfall over land for a single storm in continental U.S. history.

Source: Huffington Post August 31, 2017 20:06 UTC