![]() Other federal medical units are available in Dallas. In Houston, where mass evacuations can include changing major highways to a one-way vehicle flow, authorities left traffic patterns unchanged.įederal health officials called in more than 400 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals from around the nation and planned to move two 250-bed medical units to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Steady traffic filled the highways leaving Corpus Christi, but there were no apparent jams. “The Houston area and Corpus Christi are going to be a mess for a long time.”īefore the storm arrived, home and business owners raced to nail plywood over windows and fill sandbags. “In terms of economic impact, Harvey will probably be on par with Hurricane Katrina,” said University of Miami senior hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy. The resulting flooding, one expert said, could be “the depths of which we’ve never seen.”Īt least one researcher predicted heavy damage that would linger for months or longer. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961’s Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record.Īside from the winds of 201 km/h and storm surges up to 4 metres, Harvey was expected to drop prodigious amounts of rain - up to 90 centimetres. Without losing significant strength, the system will come ashore as the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he had granted Abbott’s request for a disaster declaration, “which unleashes the full force of government help!” “We are going to be dealing with immense, really record-setting flooding in multiple regions across the State of Texas.” “It’s a hurricane that’s going to prove more dangerous than many hurricanes,” Abbott said. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be “a very major disaster,” and the predictions drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest ever to strike the U.S. Harvey’s approach sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing the Gulf Coast, hoping to escape the wrath of an increasingly menacing storm set to slam an area of Texas that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. about 48 kilometres northeast of Corpus Christi between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, bringing with it 209 km/h sustained winds and flooding rains. The National Hurricane Center said the eye of the Category 4 hurricane made landfall about 10 p.m. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS-Hurricane Harvey smashed into Texas late Friday, lashing a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain from the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. ![]()
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