HOUSTON, TX – AUGUST 27: A resident of Bayou on the Bend watches the first floor flood as the Buffalo Bayou continues to rise on August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas. A resident said the water was probably fifty feet deep. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in Texas over the next couple of days. (Photo by Brian Davidson\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n
HOUSTON, TX – AUGUST 27: Andrew White (L) helps a neighbor down a street after rescuing her from her home in his boat in the upscale River Oaks neighborhood after it was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in Texas over the next couple of days. (Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dramatic photos and videos published on social media and by HuffPost reporters have captured the destruction in parts of\u00a0Texas\u00a0after Hurricane Harvey barreled into the Gulf Coast, bringing potentially \u201chistoric\u201d rain and\u00a0flooding,\u00a0according to weather officials. \u201cThis event is unprecedented & all impacts are unknown & beyond anything experienced,\u201d the National Weather Service said. Some portions of Texas could receive up to 50 inches of rain. \u00a0NICK OXFORD\/REUTERS \u00a0DAVID LOHR\/HUFFPOST \u00a0DAVID LOHR\/HUFFPOST \u00a0NICK OXFORD\/REUTERS <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,619,6593,4],"tags":[6864,6865,69,839],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41299,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41287\/revisions\/41299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41287"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}