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although tide and wind damage Damaging was minimal , extreme rainfall totaling upwards of resulted in severe flooding Motion in many areas of the texas coastal plain ; 4,000 homes were inundated in jefferson , orange , and newton counties , many of them after a levee ruptured Destroying in port acres .