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All Eyes photo gallery: Houston underwater from fierce Harvey rains

 
Precinct 6 Deputy Constables Sgt. Paul Fernandez, from left, Sgt. Michael Tran and Sgt. Radha Patel rescue an elderly woman from rising water on North MacGregor Way, near Brays Bayou, after heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. [Jon Shapley | Houston Chronicle via AP]
Precinct 6 Deputy Constables Sgt. Paul Fernandez, from left, Sgt. Michael Tran and Sgt. Radha Patel rescue an elderly woman from rising water on North MacGregor Way, near Brays Bayou, after heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. [Jon Shapley | Houston Chronicle via AP]
Published Sept. 19, 2017

HOUSTON — Tropical Storm Harvey unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain into Texas after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline, killing at least six people and trapping hundreds more in rising floodwaters.

Major interstate highways became rivers where residents walked up to their chests in water or canoed and kayaked their way to safety. Numerous motorboats trolled the flooded roadways to rescue stranded motorists and pedestrians.

Harvey slammed into the Texas coast late Friday northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds.

It weakened Saturday to a tropical storm. On Sunday, The U.S. Hurricane Center said Harvey was virtually stationary about 25 miles northwest of Victoria, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph.

The system was the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961's Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record.