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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Tropical Storm Harvey slammed into Texas Thursday, making landfall in Houston before heading east toward Austin.
The National Weather Service said storm surge was about 40 feet in Austin’s downtown core.
The rain from Harvey „put our infrastructure in greater risk than it had for the last 12 years,“ the Weather Service wrote in a warning.
It added it’s safe to evacuate those most in danger. The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. Become one.
The storms made landfall around 11 p.m. in Dallas and Fort Worth, damaging several city buildings, according to the Weather Service. The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport lost power. Houston officials issued an evacuation warning.
Harvey made landfall west-southeast of Corpus Christi around 3 a.m. Thurs우리카지노day, with a maximum sustained wind speed of 45 mph. It is moving west toward the Texas City area with maximum sustained wind gusts of 40 mph or higher.
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The storm will still be the fourth-most destructive major hurricane in U.S. history, according to National Hurricane Center records.
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Houston Police said there was a massive rescue effort underway, with more than 700 people being rescued.
About 200 people were rescued from one of three Houston-area apartment complexes destroyed in the storm, police spokesman Carlos Hernandez said.
By 3:15 a.m. Thursday, one hour after landfall, about 7.5 inches of rain had fallen in Houston, the National Weather Service noted. It was expected to continue raining through the day.
The Weather Service issued two flash flood warnings for Houston in all but the most heavily populated areas. Flooding could be seen Thursday morning as torrential rain fell.
Copyright by KXAN – All rights reserved Floods on June 18, 2카지노 사이트015 in Lake Travis, Texas. (CALIPSO/AFP/Getty Images)
Copyright by KXAN – All rights reserved Floods on June 18, 2015 in Lake Travis, Texas. (CALIPSO/AFP/Getty Images)
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