As Houston and the rest of the Texas coast begin the recovery from Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented devastation, the roughly 10 inches of rain Austin received from the storm certainly doesn't seem like much. Businesses along the city's twin downtown waterways, Waller and Shoal Creeks, laid some sandbags down and called it a day.
But a little more than 100 years ago, 10 inches of rain was serious business.
On April 22, 1915, about 10 inches of heavy rainfall caused both Waller and Shoal . . .
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