(Bloomberg) -- Record-breaking Hurricane Harvey became the second-costliest storm to hit the U.S. and dropped more rain than any other system ever.

Harvey, the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. since 2005, killed at least 103 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage, making it the second only to Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, the National Hurricane Center said in a report Thursday.

Drilling down into the casualty figures shows at least 68 people died as a direct result of Harvey’s winds or flooding, the most since Sandy in 2012 and the worst in Texas since 1919, the report said.

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