Dramatic video shows ocean waves on a Texas highway after Harvey

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Tropical Storm Harvey has made a second landfall near the Louisiana-Texas border after dumping 19 trillion gallons of rain in Texas, bringing flood and devastation.

The storm produced the most rain of any tropical storm or hurricane in the history of the lower 48 states.

While there are many pictures that show the "catastrophic" flooding, these images of waves lapping over Interstate 10 West of Beaumont, between Beaumont and Winnie, are nothing short of apocalyptic:

You can definitely see bubbles and streaks on the waves's breaking crests, just like on the ocean's surface.

Logan Wheat captured the photo when he set out on a boat to check on 90 head of cattle in a nearby pasture.

“It’s scary to know there were still cows out there and alive… but it puts a knot in my throat to know we couldn’t get them out,” he told Storyful.

A Twitter user, Brian Crumpler, put together a side by side picture of I-10 before and after the storm:

The storm hit Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Houston Texas particularly hard, and will rank as the most extreme precipitation event in the history of any major U.S. city. As of Wednesday morning eastern time, 19 locations in Texas had received at least 40 inches of rain, with the jackpot of 51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou, Texas.

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