Americans watched in shock and sympathy on the weekend as Hurricane Harvey poured record amounts of rainfall on south Texas and especially Houston, America’s fourth-largest city. The aerial scenes of flooding in the sprawling city are astonishing, as highways became rivers and whole neighborhoods were submerged amid 24 inches of rain in 24 hours with as much as 50 inches or more expected by the National Weather Service. By Sunday...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 22:18 UTC