Harvey knocked out the water supply for thousands in Beaumont, Texas.

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By Kate YoderAug 31, 2017, 3:40 pm142 pts
The storm made a second landfall Tuesday, pouring 26 inches on the oil town 100 miles east of Houston. Floods inundated its roadways, leaving many of its 118,000 residents stranded. To make things worse, now Beaumont doesn’t even have running water. Floodwaters damaged the city’s pumps, knocking out…

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