Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas last Friday as a Category 4 storm, dumping historic amounts of rain over the eastern portion of the state and leaving nearly 40 people feared dead in its wake.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced along the Gulf Coast as a result of Harvey and the flooding that followed the storm, which wreaked havoc in an area stretching nearly 500 kilometres across the southeastern portion of the state.
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Harris County FEMA director Tom Fargione said the agency was looking for ways to house people who lost their homes to Harvey, with 32,000 people reported in shelters across Texas. Some evacuees had begun returning to their homes — the George R. Brown Convention Center, where 10,000 people took shelter, housed 8,000 evacuees late Thursday.
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In Houston, parts of the downtown core were submerged in more than three metres of water as a result of Buffalo Bayou river surging waters and the roughly 60-trillion litres that had fallen on the area since Friday.
On Thursday, satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe released images showing what parts of Texas looked like before and after Harvey, showing the extent of the floods.
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-with a file from the Associated Press