Tropical storm stalls along Texas coast, flooding city streets

Jeff Williams gets back in his vehicle to try to get it out of the flooded road Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in Surfside, Texas. A tidal surge hit the island overnight, before Tropical Storm Beta makes landfall. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Tropical Storm Beta has stalled along the coast of Texas, flooding streets in Houston and Galveston hours after making landfall amid an unusually busy hurricane season.

The storm made landfall late on Monday just north of Port O’Connor, and has the distinction of being the first time a storm named for a Greek letter made landfall in the continental US.