The most rain recorded in a single place during the storm was an astonishing 51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou, Tex. What does 51.88 inches of rain look like? (For our purposes, we’re imagining each point to receive 51.88 inches over a square yard of surface.) Let’s look at the Penn Hills neighborhood near Pittsburgh, an appropriately hilly one. People make their way out of a flooded Houston neighborhood Tuesday after it was inundated with rain following Hurricane Harvey.

Source: Washington Post August 30, 2017 12:25 UTC