Imelda made landfall near Freeport, Texas, on Tuesday, as a tropical storm before weakening to a depression. Over the next two days, the storm moved farther inland, spreading heavy rain to multiple counties.

Some areas of the Lone Star State had up to 28 inches of rain on Thursday morning with more expected to arrive over the coming days. Patients were evacuated from a hospital, people were rescued from their homes and the Chamber County sheriff said the storm’s impact made Hurricane Harvey look like a “little thunderstorm.”

Harvey hit Texas in 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane, damaged hundreds of thousands of homes, caused massive flooding and claimed multiple lives.

In Jefferson County, Texas, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported preliminary highest storm rainfall total amounts were up to 43 inches. If this number remains correct, it would make Imelda the 7th wettest tropical cyclone in United States history. It would also be the 4th wettest tropical cyclone to ever impact Texas.

Imelda weakened into an open wave on Thursday afternoon, but its impact is still being felt in both Texas and Louisiana, which also experienced Harvey. Texas bore the brunt of the storm, but on Friday morning, motorists in Louisiana found multiple roads were closed. 511LA, which provides traffic information for Louisiana, identified the flood-induced road closures as:

I-10 westbound from Exit 4 to the Louisiana/Texas State LineLA-12 Westbound from Old River Rd to Scales Road. All Lanes Closed. LA-12 westbound from Starks to the Louisiana/Texas State Line

Those who were on the road were advised to take US 165 at Exit 44, US 171 at Exit 33 or LA 27 at Exit 27 to detour to I-20.

I-10 in Texas was also closed in both directions at the San Jacinto River, according to the Texas Department of Transportation (DoT). Motorists were advised to use SH 225 as an alternate route and the DoT had no estimate of when it would reopen. It was also closed in both directions between Beaumont and Winnie, Texas.

On Friday morning, a Flash Flood Watch was still in effect for parts of southeast Texas identified by the NWS as: Hardin, Jefferson, Northern Jasper, Northern Newton, Orange, Southern Jasper, Southern Newton, and Tyler. An additional one to two inches of rain was expected.

Areas of Louisiana were previously under a Flash Flood Watch as well, although, on Friday morning, the NWS canceled it because life-threatening flash flooding was no longer expected.

While Imelda dissipated, farther to the east, in the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Jerry approached the Leeward Islands. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasted that heavy rains would impact the islands and a Tropical Storm Watch was in place for St. Maarten, St. Barthelemy and Saba and St. Eustatius.

Although Jerry wasn’t expected to make landfall on any of the islands, the NHC explained that rainfall from the storm could create flash floods.