Hurricane Harvey Strengthens to Category 4, Hurtles Toward Texas

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Source: nbc




BREAKING News
Hurricane Harvey
Aug 25 2017, 5:59 pm ET

by Phil McCausland, Daniel Arkin and Elizabeth Chuck

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Harvey strengthened to a major Category 4 hurricane Friday evening, roaring toward Texas in what was predicted to be the most powerful storm to hit the United States in more than a decade.

Thousands of residents had fled parts of coastal Texas and homeowners, businesses and government officials were scrambling ahead of what officials warned could be a life-threatening storm.

The National Weather Service said Harvey had the potential to batter the state with significant rain, 125-mph winds, 12-foot storm surges, and "catastrophic" flooding.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/hurricane-harvey-strengthens-category-2-mandatory-evacuations-ordered-n795856

[Warpy]

1. "Hurtles?" Damned thing is crawling

and that's what's going to do all the damage.

[Purveyor]

7. Thank you. eom

[tclambert]

10. How about "Slouches toward Galveston to be born?"

I had a Yeats moment.

[Warpy]

11. Yes, except landfall usually is the beginning of the end.

Unfortunately, this thing is going to squat over SE Texas and rain itself out for a while. This is not good.

I really hope people who live anywhere near flowing water, even a nice, polite little creek, had decamped to higher ground.

[jpak]

2. OMG

not good

[Stuart G]

3. Horrific, k and r.

[Honeycombe8]

4. OMG. This is going to do extensive damage and ruin lives. Hurricanes are scary. nt

[BigmanPigman]

5. The fake prez probably welcomes it as another "distraction" from Russia-gate.

[Purveyor]

8. This will dominate the news cycle, if projections are correct, for at least 5 days. eom

[Cold War Spook]

6. Government officials

have just told the people who did not evacuate to write their names and social security numbers on their arms so they can be identified.

[NCDem777]

9. Every Atlantic Dem should do what the GOP did during Sandy

and hamper the disaster relief as much as possible.

[Chemisse]

12. Locking

This is a dupe of this thread, posted just seconds before. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141852836