In June 2001, what caused Houston experiencing the worst flooding in its history?

Now Hurricane Harvey has beaten all the numbers on flooding from all storms in Houston's history.

I went through hurricane Alicia in '86 on the Texas gulf coast. 120mph winds...devastating.

hurricane Harvey caused the worst flooding in Houston history dumping over 50 inches of rain!! Not tropical storm Allison

Player #1104482, dumping over 50 inches of rain in August 2017

Texans keep electing money grubbers and the poor suffer the consequences. February 2021 brought heavy snow and freezing temps. The power grid failed and people froze to death--animals, too.

Longarms, it says on that date but yes it was tropical storm Harvey that hit us, hurricane Harvey went down I10

easy answer as our house was flooded by both Frances and Allison

Allison was worse because Houston made some improvements that helped in Harvey .... but Harvey dumped more rain. Both were devastating.

my immediate thought was Harvey too, my brother is coast guard and was working search and rescue afterwards. He said that civilians with boats were going down the streets picking up people who were stranded. I was in Michigan going to college at the time and one of the humanities groups wanted to drive down there and 'help'. what people who don't live there don't understand is that natural disaster sites don't need anymore displaced people what they need is supplies. sending 10 people down there in diesel trucks is not helping, there is no gas, there is a shortage of food, drinking water, dry clothes, places to sleep, batteries for flashlights, there is no electricity. the only reason ppl should be going down there is 1-2 ppl in a van full of supplies.

Gary, Me too in Houston and my sister lived in Freeport.

Harvey said "hold my beer"

Gary, Hurricane Alicia was in 83

I live in Houston, but was out of the country the summer Allison hit. My parents sent me pictures of the flooding. When I showed my co-workers one of the pictures, they asked me the name of the river in the picture. I had to tell them that it wasn't a river, it was a freeway. Unfortunately, I was around for Harvey. Those were some very scary days.