The storm basically got stuck between two high pressure systems basically dumping trillions of gallons of water over these areas that are seeing major flooding, plus with a city like Houston the entire surrounding area has been developed extensively, like HopAlongBunny said, so all of that water didn't have anywhere to go and it started rising. When it was over Houston and my area it was a Tropical Storm I'm pretty sure, but it was moving so slowly that it just dumped massive amounts of rain. It dumped 26" in 24 hours over my area on Tuesday, and the previous few days there were heavy thunderstorms over that time period.
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