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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a Marine Accident Brief June 22 detailing the September 19, 2019, barge breakaway at San Jacinto River Fleet in Channelview, Texas, and the resulting bridge allision at the nearby Interstate 10 bridge over the San Jacinto River. At the time, the fleeting area was owned by San Jacinto River Fleet LLC and operated by Cheryl K Marine LLC, according to the NTSB. The incident occurred during the aftermath of Tropical Storm Imelda, which made landfall September 17, 2019, near Freeport, Texas, which is about halfway between Matagorda and Galveston Island. The storm intensified just before landfall, then tracked slowly across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana, dropping an incredible amount of rainfall over a three-day period. According to the National Hurricane Center, Imelda went on to become the fifth-wettest tropical cyclone on record for the contiguous United States. Much of the Houston metropolitan area recorded more than 30 inches of rain from Imelda. An area 2 miles south-southwest of Fannett, Texas, recorded a whopping 44.29 inches from the storm, including 31 inches of rain in just a 12-hour period. |