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torrential rains, authorities said on Saturday.</p><p>Harvey hit Texas, the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry, late Friday as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 miles per hour (209 km per hour), making it the strongest storm to strike Texas since 1961.</p><div class="mobile-body-ad"></div><p>The storm has ripped off rooves, snapped powerlines, and triggered tornadoes and flash floods. It has weakened to a tropical storm, but is expected to lash Texas for days, bringing as much as 40 inches (102 cm) of rain. Texas utility companies said nearly a quarter of a million customers were without power.</p><p>One person died in a house fire in the town of Rockport, 30 miles (48 km) north of the city of Corpus Christi, as Harvey roared ashore overnight, Mayor Charles Wax said in a news conference on Saturday, marking the first confirmed fatality from the storm.</p><p>Earlier, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he would activate 1,800 members of the military to help with the statewide cleanup while 1,000 people would conduct search-and-rescue operations.</p><p>In Rockport, which took a direct hit from the storm, the streets were flooded and strewn with power lines and debris on Saturday. At a recreational vehicle sales lot, a dozen vehicles were flipped over and one had been blown into the middle of the street.</p><p>"It was terrible," resident Joel Valdez, 57, told Reuters. The storm ripped part of the roof from his trailer home at around 4 a.m., he said. "I could feel the whole house move."</p><p>Valdez said he stayed through the storm to look after his animals. "I have these miniature donkeys and I don't know where they are," he said, as he sat in a Jeep with windows smashed by the storm.</p><p>Resident Frank Cook, 56, also stayed through the storm.</p><p>"If you have something left of your house, you're lucky," he said, surveying the damage from his vehicle.</p><p>Before the storm hit, Rockport's mayor told anyone staying behind to write their names on their arms for identification in case of death or injury.</p><p>A high school, hotel, senior housing complex and other buildings suffered structural damage, according to emergency officials and local media. Some were being used as shelters.</p><p>The coastal city of Port Lavaca, farther north on the coast, had no power and some streets were flooded.</p><p>"There is so much tree damage and debris that the cost of cleanup will be enormous," Mayor Jack Whitlow told Reuters, after touring the city earlier Saturday.</p><p>The streets of Corpus Christi, which has around 320,000 residents, were deserted on Saturday, with billboards twisted and strong winds still blowing.</p><p>City authorities asked residents to reduce use of toilets and faucets because power outages left waste water plants unable to treat sewage.</p><p>A drill ship broke free of its mooring overnight and rammed into some tugs in the port of Corpus Christi, port executive Sean Strawbridge said. The crews on the tugs were safe, he added.</p><p>The city was under voluntary evacuation ahead of the storm.</p><p>Harvey was a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale when it hit the coast, the second-highest category, and the most powerful storm in over a decade to come ashore anywhere in the mainland United States.</p><p><b>HEADING INLAND, STORM WEAKENS</b></p><p>Harvey weakened to tropical storm from hurricane strength on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The center of the storm was about 170 miles (241 km) west-southwest of Houston, moving at about 2 mph (4 kph), the center said in a morning update.</p><p>Houston is the fourth most populous city in the United States and home to a third of the 6 million people that could be impacted by Harvey.</p><p>Residents of the city received automatic cell phone warnings of flash floods early on Saturday. Authorities warned of the potentially life-threatening impact of close to 20 inches (60 cm) of rain falling on the city over several days. The storm's outer bands had already dumped six inches of rainfall on parts of the city by early Saturday afternoon.</p><p>The latest forecast storm track has Harvey looping back toward the Gulf of Mexico coast before turning north again on Tuesday. (http://tmsnrt.rs/2g9jZ0W)</p><p>"This rain will lead to a prolonged, dangerous, and potentially catastrophic flooding event well into next week," the National Weather Service said. Harvey has triggered flash floods, the NWS said.</p><p>The size and strength of Harvey dredged up memories of Katrina, the 2005 hurricane that made a direct hit on New Orleans as a Category 3 storm, causing levees and flood walls to fail in dozens of places. About 1,800 died in the disaster made worse by a slow government emergency response.</p><p>U.S. President Donald Trump, facing the first big natural disaster of his term, signed a disaster proclamation on Friday.</p><p>He met with his cabinet and staff on Saturday to discuss the federal reaction to the storm, according to a White House statement.</p><p>"President Trump emphasized his expectations that all departments and agencies stay fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives," according to the statement.</p><p><b>GASOLINE PRICES SPIKE</b></p><p>Utilities American Electric Power Company Inc and CenterPoint Energy Inc reported a combined total of around 240,000 customers without power.</p><p>Several refiners shut down plants ahead of the storm, disrupting supplies and pushing prices higher. 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