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Article snippet: Overwhelmed by the news since Harvey made landfall? Here is an overview of coverage by The New York Times, which sent nearly two dozen journalists to Texas. The latest can be found in Thursday’s live storm briefing. With rainfall topping 50 inches in some areas, Harvey devastated a swath of Texas stretching from the Houston area into Louisiana. “Our whole city is underwater,” Derrick Freeman, the mayor of Port Arthur, Tex., said on Wednesday. (Read an account from one of our reporters on his trip home to nearby Beaumont.) Even as the rain and wind moved on, the region continued to suffer consequences of the storm. Explosions rocked a chemical plant early Thursday, and many hazards lurk beneath the floodwaters that soaked the region. The storm has also forced Houston to grapple with the limits of its growth. Here are some of the most powerful photos of the devastation and a before-and-after look at the affected areas. If you can do so safely, please share your own photos and videos here, or leave us a voice mail message. Listen to Thursday’s episode of “The Daily” to learn about how Houston was built to flood. At least 39 people have died, including a Houston police officer, a family trapped in a van beneath surging floodwater, and a mother whose shivering 3-year-old was found clinging to her unresponsive body. Survivors face hurdles of their own, with help likely to be slow in coming. Managing the shelters that are housing tens of thousands of them remains “the ... Link to the full article to read more