add this. how on earth do you prepare for 50 inches of rain, really? this will be debated for years to come. as far as the forecast goes, the national weather service, the national hurricane center, once we knew where the storm was going, on point. they knew that we were going to get historic, life-threatening catastrophic floods. we couldn't believe the numbers seeing 50 inches of rainfall, and it's happening. so the national hurricane center did excellent work when it comes to forecasting. we did the best that we possibly with the information that we h look at the rainfall totals over 27 inches already. the problem is we're going to get more. more rainfall. typically with these systems, sometimes a cold front will move through. the jet stream will help things along not happening. we have nothing to steer this. that's why we have the potential for more heavy rain. heaviest rain band has moved east of the houston area. the area of low pressure, the center of the system is forecast to move back into the gulf of mexico. so there is the potential