The National Weather Service said radar estimates suggested that Jefferson County was deluged with more than 100 centimetres of rain in a span of just 72 hours, which would make it the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.  

Even when Houston was finally rid of the worst, downtown highways remained littered with abandoned cars submerged in water. Thousands of other drivers were at a practical standstill on narrowed lanes near flooded banks. #texas