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<p>At least two people have died as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to dump rain on Southeast Texas.</p><p>Gary Norman, a spokesman for the Houston emergency operations centre, says the woman appeared to have gotten out of her vehicle in high water. She was found by neighbours about 27 metres away from the vehicle. Norman says she was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor who was in the area.</p><p>Earlier Saturday, Aransas County Judge C.H. "Burt" Mills Jr. said the storm left one person dead in the county. </p>








    
        






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<p>"This is just the beginning," said Jeff Evans, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Houston-Galveston office. "We could see catastrophic flooding for a lot of people, historic flooding for parts of Texas. We're looking at measuring rainfall not in inches, but in feet."</p><p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott said at a news conference on Saturday that there had already been about 50cm of rain in Corpus Christi and about 40cm of rain in Houston.</p><p>"Our primary concern remains dramatic flooding," he said. "Biggest concern is the possibility of between 20 and 30 more inches of rain."</p>








    
        






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<p>Severe weather made it impossible for emergency assessment teams to venture into the city overnight, Wax said. Yet already officials had heard that the local high school had been damaged and the wall of a hotel had collapsed.</p><p>In Victoria, a city of 62,000 people about 50km from the coast in southeast Texas, heavy rains pounded sideways on Saturday morning as ferocious winds lashed the city.</p><p>The streets were empty of cars and littered with downed trees and power lines. Several gas station overhangs had collapsed and fallen on top of the pumps. Water began to pool on neighbourhood streets.</p>








    
        






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<p>At a Red Cross shelter, more than 300 residents huddled inside, slumped on cots as they awaited news about the storm.</p><p>What makes Harvey so potentially dangerous, even as it weakens, is that it will linger in the area, meteorologists say.</p><p>"Typically, a hurricane comes in and pulls inland, but this is moving slowly, and it's expected to stall, wobble and maybe loop back to where it came in," Evans said.</p>








    
        






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<p>As Harvey approached Friday, a hurricane warning was in effect along a wide stretch of coastline from Port Mansfield to Sargent, spanning a region that in which about 4 million people live. An additional 12 million, many in the major cities of Houston and San Antonio, were under a tropical storm warning.</p><p>On Saturday morning, the National Weather Service warned that some areas could get as much as 100cm of rain - about the amount of rainfall many Texas coastal towns get in a year.</p><p>It urged residents not to return to evacuated areas until hazardous winds weaken and floodwaters recede.</p>








    
    
            






























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<p>Across the coast, some residents ventured out on Saturday morning to check on family and friends. "It's like a little ghost town," Eddie Canales, 69, said as he drove his car across Corpus Christi - past broken fences, toppled trees and dark traffic lights - to check on his uncle and cousins.</p><p>Not long after the storm slammed onto shore between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor, there were news reports of damage.</p><p>At least 10 people were treated for injuries at a local jail in Rockport after the roof of a senior citizens' complex collapsed, local media reported.</p>








    
        






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<p>Part of a local high school also collapsed, and a portion of the exterior of a hotel peeled off in the heavy winds, KXAN reported.</p><p>"People are trapped inside at least one collapsed building," Rockport City manager Kevin Carruth told KIII. "We can't get rescue teams to them right now."</p><p>Shortly after midnight, the storm came ashore along the northeastern shore of Copano Bay and downgraded at that point to a Category 3 storm, the National Weather Service reported.</p>








    
        






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<p>Before Harvey, the most recent major hurricane to hit the US was Wilma, a Category 3 storm in Florida in October 2005, two months after Hurricane Katrina.</p><p>Historically, slow-moving tropical storms and hurricanes have caused some of Texas' most severe flooding. In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison hovered above the Houston area for days, dumping up to 50cm of rain - as much as 80 per cent of the area's average annual rainfall over some neighbourhoods.</p><p>The last hurricane to hit the Texas coast - Hurricane Ike, a Category 2 storm that wreaked havoc after making landfall in Galveston in 2008 - killed at least 37 people and resulted in more than US$30 billion (NZ$41.4b) in damage.</p>








    
        






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<p>The storm posed the first major emergency management test of President Donald Trump's administration. The president signed a federal disaster declaration for coastal counties on Friday night.</p><p>Trump commended the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for his handling of the hurricane.</p><p>In a tweet addressed to FEMA head Brock Long on Saturday, Trump said: "You are doing a great job - the world is watching! Be safe."</p><p>In a separate tweet, Trump said he is monitoring the hurricane closely from Camp David. "We are leaving nothing to chance. City, State and Federal Govs. working great together!"</p><p>The president also tweeted, "We have fantastic people on the ground, got there long before #Harvey. So far, so good!"</p><p><strong>- Agencies</strong></p><div class="story-footer-ad-container cf">
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