(Bloomberg) -- Record-breaking Hurricane Harvey became the second-costliest storm to hit the U.S. and dropped more rain than any other system ever.
Harvey, the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. since 2005, killed at least 103 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage, making it the second only to Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, the National Hurricane Center said in a report Thursday.
Drilling down into the casualty figures shows at least 68 people died as a direct result of Harvey’s winds or flooding, the most since Sandy in 2012 and the worst in Texas since 1919, the report said.
Flooding did the most damage
It was flooding rains that did the most damage and became the
signature for Harvey, paralyzing Houston, the fourth-largest
American city, and crippling the Western Hemisphere’s oil, refining
and chemical hub. About 40,000 people were evacuated or had to flee
to shelters across Texas and Louisiana. In addition, 30,000 water
rescues occurred during the storm.
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