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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — They had to find new words.

In advance of Hurricane Harvey's landfall, the meteorologists at the National Weather Service in League City felt they needed to break from the usual language they use to communicate the dangers of the storm and the rain it would bring.

The Galveston County Daily News reports they settled on a handful of words.

Catastrophic. Epic. Unprecedented.

"There was a lot of thinking on how to communicate all that," said Dan Reilly, the warning coordination meteorologist at the League City office. "We wanted to communicate that this was going to be a b...