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What Mexicans Did During Typhoon Harvey

There were a lot of things anyone can do during a typhoon. You can probably imagine someone very scared trying to hide under the bed waiting for the storm to stop. Well, staff at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston, Texas have different things in mind. Just recently, typhoon Harvey hits Texas, it flooded a huge area in Houston alone. Those staff at the Mexican Bakery were trapped inside the chain for two days and what have they done, is truly amazing. No hurricane, typhoon, or tropical storm, in all of recorded history, has dropped as much water on a single major city as Hurricane Harvey. The National Weather Service has had to create a new scale to accurately depict how much rain has fallen, as a few locations have crested the three foot mark since the Hurricane first made landfall. Things aren't even done yet, as the eye of the storm has taken up residence right off of the Texas coast, and large swaths of the southwest will continue to experience unprecedented, heavy rains all