Wednesday marks 23 years since the formation of Tropical Storm Allison, a storm which would go on to heavily impact the Houston area.
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Onlookers stand on an overpass where flood waters have covered Interstate 10 in Houston, Saturday, June 9, 2001. Thousands of people were out of their homes Saturday and thousands more stranded on flooded freeways, their cars and trucks hopelessly under water, as torrential rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison swamped Houston and Southeast Texas. Two million people were affected. Most of the deaths occurred from people walking or drowning in high water.
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