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The weather in Houston becomes a deeper shade of purple

Highways around downtown Houston are empty as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey overflow from the bayous around the city Tuesday in Houston. AP/David J. Phillip

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Highways around downtown Houston are empty as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey overflow from the bayous around the city Tuesday in Houston. AP/David J. Phillip
By Jim Galloway
Aug 29, 2017

So much rain has fallen in Houston, the National Weather Service has had to add two extra shades of purple to its precipitation charts:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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