b'B y the time the sun set on the Coastal Bend on Friday, August 25, 2017,of the storm was drenching southeast Texas at a record rate. In Pearland, directly south of advisories on Hurricane Harvey predicted that the it would make landfalldowntown Houston, just under ten inches of rain fell in ninety minutes, and in the town on the Texas coast between Corpus Christi and Port OConnor, but whileof Cedar Bayou, just east of Baytown, the North American record of 51.88 inches fell the storm had strengthened to a Cat 4, the greatest danger predicted byover a period of three days.those in the news media was the path it was expected to take once inland.As devastating as the historic rains were, it was on Tuesday afternoon, August 29th, The rainfall was considered the biggest threat as Harvey made landfall,that God saved Galveston, Texas, and/or Houston, and maybe even New Orleans, from and after it was all said and done, historic rainfall in southeast Texas is what ran up thewhat Harvey had delivered to Port Aransas, Aransas Pass and Rockport. Given the right tab and resulted in Harveys place as the financially costliest single, natural disaster inconditions, the storm could very well have regained its strength offshore, and maybe even American history. After losing strength on Saturday night, the storm lingered over theonce again spun into a tight ball of 130-mile-per-hour fury as it made its second landfall Victoria area until Monday afternoon, when it drifted eastward back into the gulf, theon the gulf coast. center having moved offshore by 4:00 p.m. Monday. By 4:00 a.m. Tuesday, Harvey wasPrudent public officials like Port Aransas Mayor Charles Bujan issued a mandatory almost one hundred miles back into the warm waters of the gulf, while the northeast sideevacuation order Thursday afternoon, recognizing the vulnerability of the island towns 34 THE COOASASTTAL BEND MAGA TheC talBend.comom44 THE C AL BEND MAGAZINEZINEFEAJanuary/TURED: The StFebruary 2018ories that Mattered TheCooasastalBend.c'