A stunningly powerful, already historic natural catastrophe has struck America's fourth-largest city, as Hurricane Harvey has ravaged Houston with fierce winds and an astounding amount of rain. That has led to disastrous flooding, submerging untold numbers of homes and businesses and turning roadways to rivers, leaving countless people stranded and five people dead. The comparisons to Hurricane Katrina have already begun. And with that devastation have come some remarkable statistics.CBS 온라인 바카라 게임 is reporting that as much as 11 trillion gallons of water have fallen on the Houston area since Friday. In another formulation from the National Weather Service, some areas could ultimately see 50 inches in total rainfall. That's about as much rain as Houston gets in an average year. In describing the rainfall, the NWS said its "breadth and intensity are beyond anything experienced before." The wild numbers are coming from the wider metro Houston area, too: Residents of La Grange, a town west of the city, were ordered to evacuate when the NWS estimated the nearby Colorado River would crest at 49.1 feet.The sheer force of the storm has also spawned some harrowing tales of life on the edge. Like with Katrina, people have been fished out of rapidly flooding homes and plucked from soggy rooftops by helicopter. A 17-year-old named Maya Wadler described her rescue to The New York Times, recounting the water that "bubbled up from the doors, seeped in from the windows" and the moment she realized, perhaps for the first time, that her parents did not have the answer to their predicament:"I was sitting in the corner holding my dad really tight," she said. "I usually just trust my parents that everything is going to be O.K. But I looked up and I saw that my dad was closing his eyes, the water was getting in his eyes. And I just thought: He has absolutely no idea where we are going to go."Wadler was eventually helped onto a dump truck driven by rescue workers. But it hasn't just been emergency responders who've been doing the saving, though they have by all accounts done a spectacular job. The federal government is also responding in force, with 5,000 people on the ground. Even the government of Mexico has overlooked recent issues to offer help to their neighbors north of the border. The news media has also done the work of helping people escape their own homes before they become tombs. That includes CNN's Ed Lavandera, who rescued a woman and her elderly parents—one of whom suffers from Alzheimer's—on live TV:A team from local outfit KHOU also helped rescue a truck driver who got stuck in some perilously deep flood water on a highway off-ramp:There's nothing like a genuine crisis event to showcase the genuine humanity of all involved. Houston will need a lot more of that in the days to come, and in the years that will follow, when the task and toll of rebuilding will be daunting. The Times estimates it will be many billions of dollars, and may well come to be a generational effort for H-Town.