Hurricane Harvey - Part 2

What was Hurricane Harvey is now a depression wending it's way up the Mississippi River valley, still dropping heavy rains and causing localized flooding; but nothing like before.
   Harvey pulled up water from the Gulf of Mexico, seemingly with frenzied glee, to drop it over a dry landscape.  The Houston area normally has about 50 inches of rain fall each year; in five days only, it had 51.88 inches fall.  In one week, just seven days, Harvey's system dropped more than 20 trillion gallons of water along coastal Texas and southwest Louisiana.  It would take New York City, New York, and it's suburbs, more than 50 years to use all of that water.  - And, yes, 51.88 inches in 5 days broke the standing record for rainfalls in the past - the closest being Hurricane Amelia, which hit Medina, Texas in 1978, and dropped 48 inches of rain.
    Other numbers are just as staggering: Harvey made landfall three times; twice as a Category 3 Hurricane, and once as a Tropical Storm.  At the height of the storms, first and second landfalls, more than 900 calls per hour were flooding emergency lines.
    Amazingly, 80% of Texans have no flood insurance.  According to Texas authorities on Friday, 185,149 houses were damaged or destroyed in the Houston area. Also, according to Texas authorities on Friday, 364,000 people had applied for FEMA emergency assistance; and the Governor stated that 42,399 people were staying in emergency shelters. FEMA has also provided over 1.9 million meals through Friday, and as distributed 1.96 million liters of drinking water.  It is estimated that, within the Houston metropolitan area, there are 1.3 million people without health insurance; and that 22.5 % of the Houston population lives below the poverty level.
   Friday's estimates were that there was more than $97 billion in destruction costs, alone; and $108 billion estimated in physical damages and work lost.  Outside of Houston, in Crosby, Texas is the Arkema Plant; people have been evacuated in a 1.5 mile radius around the chemical plant due to volatile chemicals.  Three, of at least eight expected, explosions have occurred, with flames reaching 40 feet into the air.  The company has refused to state what chemicals were stored there, and everyone is "just hoping for the best."
  Twenty-four thousand National Guard troops have been deployed to the area stricken by Harvey.  More than 200,000 people are without power, and there are 120,000 people without ptable water in Beaumont, Texas.
    There have been more than 10,000 rescues made by local, state, and federal authorities.  There have probably been that many rescues made by others, unsung and unknown heroes, like the Cajun Navy, and hundreds of local fishermen, who have gone out (and are still doing so) seeking those folks who need assistance.
    Currently, there are ten oil refineries that are closed down in the Houston and Galveston areas.  People are trying to get workers in and get those refineries back into business, as petrol (gas) prices are soaring here....
    If you wish to contribute to on-going assistance for those affected by Hurricane Harvey, I suggest you go to the following website, and follow their recommendations, so that you will not make a donation to a false charity entity:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/sleasca/2017/08/29/hurricane-harvey-donation-charity-scams/2/#bd67d9c5d76d