Flooding rain from Storm Beta. According to NOAA, "In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet." (Photo: Bloomberg) Flooding rain from Storm Beta. According to NOAA, "In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet." (Photo: Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Beta is flooding Houston as it slows to a crawl along the Gulf Coast, forcing highways to shut and threatening to boost water levels even more before meandering toward Louisiana.

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