Rhetorical Précis: Hurricane Harvey In “Harvey marks the Most Extreme Rain Event in US History” (2017), Jason Samenow (The Washington Post), reports that “... a rain gauge near Mont Belvieu at Cedar Bayou… had registered 51.9 inches of rain through late Tuesday afternoon. Samenow justifies that Hurricane Harvey exceeds the previous rainfall record of 48 inches after 39 years, and also states that, “the rainfall concentrated over a 20,000-square-mile area that represents nearly 19 times the daily discharge of the Mississippi River” (7), which is an extravagant amount of water that puts people’s live in danger. Samenow elucidates that Hurricane Harvey was extremely serious, as it breaks previous rainfall records, and it effected over 5 million