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(NASA/YouTube)</span> </div> </div> <div class="pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column"> <span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/joel-achenbach/"><span itemprop="name">Joel Achenbach</span></a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/steven-mufson/"><span itemprop="name">Steven Mufson</span></a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jason-samenow/"><span itemprop="name">Jason Samenow</span></a></span> <span class="pb-byline-tool-mobile"> <span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/joel-achenbach/"><span itemprop="name">Joel Achenbach</span></a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/steven-mufson/"><span itemprop="name">Steven Mufson</span></a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jason-samenow/"><span itemprop="name">Jason Samenow</span></a></span> <span class="pb-tool email"><a href="mailto:joel.achenbach@washpost.com;mufsons@washpost.com;jason.samenow@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'Texas in direct path of suddenly intensifying, ‘astounding’ Hurricane Harvey'"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span><span class="envelope-label">Email the author</span></a></span> </span> <span class="pb-timestamp" itemprop="datePublished" content="2017-08-25T08:23-500">August 25, 2017</span> <span class="pb-tool email"><a href="mailto:joel.achenbach@washpost.com;mufsons@washpost.com;jason.samenow@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'Texas in direct path of suddenly intensifying, ‘astounding’ Hurricane Harvey'"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span><span class="envelope-label">Email the author</span></a></span> <span class="tweet-authors"><span class="pb-twitter-follow unprocessed"><a href="https://twitter.com/@StevenMufson" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-lang="en">Follow @StevenMufson</a></span> <span class="pb-twitter-follow unprocessed"><a href="https://twitter.com/@capitalweather" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-lang="en">Follow @capitalweather</a></span> </span> <span class="pb-bolt"><i class="fa fa-bolt"></i></span> </div> <article class="paywall" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Texas is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding and winds as Hurricane Harvey intensified Thursday and cruised toward a late Friday impact near Corpus Christi.</p> <p> <b></b>The National Hurricane Center described Harvey’s sudden strengthening as “astounding.” The storm is expected to strike as a Category 3 hurricane — meaning with winds greater than 111 miles per hour — making it the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005.</p> <p>Despite the increasingly alarming forecasts, officials in Corpus Christi held off on ordering mandatory evacuations of the city, which includes a great deal of low-lying land and a barrier island. “I’m not going to risk our police and fire people trying to drag somebody out of the house if they don’t want to go,” Mayor Joe McComb said Thursday.</p> <p>But the warnings from the National Weather Service grew increasingly dire.</p> <p>The NWS office in Corpus Christi said Friday that a combination of flooding from the storm surge and rainfall should make some locations “uninhabitable for an extended period.” It also warned of “structural damage to buildings, with many washing away” and that “streets and parking lots become rivers of raging water with underpasses submerged.”</p><div class="inline-content inline-video"> <div class="posttv-video-embed powa" data-ad-bar="1" data-aspect-ratio="0.5621" data-blurb="1" data-live="0" data-object-id="599f1445e4b0e0e6b3396347" data-org="wapo" data-playthrough="1" data-uuid="250b7bf0-88f6-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb" data-youtube-id="0eaZ0k_wiYA"> <script async="" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/player/prod/PoWaLoaderWapo.js?_=20180208"></script> </div> <div class="inline-video-caption"> <span class="pb-caption">Capital Weather Gang's Jason Samenow breaks down the three main threats from Harvey: Torrential downpours, a storm surge and heavy winds. (Claritza Jimenez,Jason Samenow/The Washington Post)</span> </div> </div> <p>By early Friday, Harvey was about 140 miles southeast of Corpus Christi and moving toward shore at about 10 mph, the hurricane center said.</p> <p> </p> <p>The surprise hurricane is poised to be the first major test of disaster response for the Trump administration, whose appointee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency — William B. “Brock” Long — was confirmed in June.</p> <p>“With Harvey now strengthening at a faster rate than indicated in previous advisories, the intensity forecast has become quite concerning,” the <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/241455.shtml?" shape="rect">National Hurricane Center wrote </a>in a Thursday morning advisory. “Harvey has intensified quickly this morning, and is now forecast to be a major hurricane at landfall, bringing life-threatening storm surge, rainfall, and wind hazards to portions of the Texas coast.”</p> <p>Harvey had disintegrated into a tropical depression as it crossed the Yucatán Peninsula into the western Gulf of Mexico this week. But it reorganized itself over the hot Gulf waters, forming a new, 15-mile-wide eye, and rapidly evolved into a hurricane by midday Thursday.</p> <p> </p> <p>When it comes ashore, forecasters said, it could have sustained winds of 125 miles per hour, with a 12-foot storm surge.</p><div class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/c/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/css/d9cb19704f.css?_=f2022" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/p/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/style.css?_=512fa" rel="stylesheet"/> <script>window.pbDeferredSSISingle=window.pbDeferredSSISingle||new Array;</script> <div class="pb-container"> <div class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-id="gallery/gallery" data-feature-name="no-name" data-pb-feature-config="gallery/gallery" data-pb-fingerprint="0fh3taXsipu" id="fVVe782Ko8Tvoq"> <div class="wp-volt-gal unprocessed wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide" data-blurb="The hurricane, which has weakened to a tropical storm, is the first Category 4 storm to hit the United States since Charley in 2004. 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data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/CORRECTION_Harvey_98727-cefef.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1600" data-ratio="1.508" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="60bff1e8-8b72-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Downtown Houston is seen in rain and clouds." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170827Hurricane19755.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="4981" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="91199994-8b58-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Hurricane winds in Corpus Christi, Tex., knocked a traffic light off its base." data-credit="Eric Gay/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/APTOPIX_Harvey_39777-86b2b.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5088" data-ratio="1.679" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="3b77cdc8-8a6b-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Damage is seen in Bayside." data-credit="Daniel Kramer/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_RV5WU.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="6720" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017 " data-uuid="22b6e42a-8b17-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Cars are seen below a collapsed shelter in Galveston." data-credit="Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_RV4WY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4500" data-ratio="1.503" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017 " data-uuid="287aa662-8b17-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People make their way down partially flooded roads in Galveston." data-credit="Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_RV4WX.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017 " data-uuid="0efa24e2-8b17-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Houses in Rockport, Tex., were heavily damaged." data-credit="Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/Interactivity/Images/AFP_RV2WQ.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5392" data-ratio="1.453" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="16ab7c9e-8a91-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Firefighters search for survivors at an apartment complex in Rockport." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19715.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5337" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="68ad5d32-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="A firefighter looks for survivors in an apartment in Rockport." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19737.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="6000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="2477a77a-8aab-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Damaged houses and floodwaters in Rockport." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19754.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5373" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="6598f82c-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Terry Smith stands in a kitchen where the ceiling collapsed when the storm hit Rockport. Nearby, Henry McKay tries to sleep." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/839559018.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="ff32e254-8a7d-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Daisy Graham reacts to news a friend might still be in an apartment destroyed in Rockport." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/839556548.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.41" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="3f44ad00-8a7e-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A condominium complex in Rockport is reduced to rubble." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-26T210529Z_65449306_RC1FB0346D90_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.599" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="58d1ab18-8aa8-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Billy Raney, center, is helped out the window of his Rockport apartment by Lee Guerrero and Daisy Graham." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/839556160.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="32b27a72-8a7e-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Jessica Campbell hugs Jonathan Fitzgerald after riding out the storm in an apartment in Rockport." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/839556180.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="2610d17e-8a7e-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Boats were pushed ashore in Port Lavaca, Tex." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-26T165315Z_1425546980_RC1A61727330_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.595" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="a8f03fde-8a84-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A car is surrounded by floodwaters in Point Comfort, Tex." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-26T165139Z_791645347_RC17F4B27720_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.607" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="aea1f4e0-8a84-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An overhead gantry collapses across Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi." data-credit="Mohammad Khursheed/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-26T170901Z_2120564665_RC1AE3785970_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.501" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="943b50c4-8a84-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="A horse wades through water on a ranch at the Courtyard Marriott in Victoria, Tex." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19696.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5725" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="570f7022-8aa7-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Cows make their way through fallen power lines near City-by-the-Sea." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19750.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5265" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="1e536a38-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="People gather supplies from destroyed homes to take back to a shelter near City-by-the-Sea." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19704.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5710" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="30dd8bc0-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Nahan Valdez goes through his home, which was damaged in the storm." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19709.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5955" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="4c70e846-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Nahan Valdez, left, and Armando Padilla, gather supplies from Valdez's damaged home near City-by-the-Sea." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19707.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5487" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="316ebb5e-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="An RV rests on its side along a road near City-by-the-Sea." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170826Hurricane19701.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="3321" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="179fbfac-8aaa-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Steve Culver cries with his dog Otis as he talks about what he said was the, “most terrifying event in his life,” Hurricane Harvey destroyed most of his home while he and his wife took shelter in Rockport, Tex. " data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/839644576.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017 " data-uuid="f6407392-8ad1-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Donna Raney moves through the wreckage of her Rockport home as Daisy Graham tells her she will help her out of the window." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/839556172.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="28b885d4-8a7e-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A damaged oil storage tank near Seadrift." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-26T165952Z_1805396899_RC1AB1C6A000_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.505" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="9e3b912e-8a84-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Stores destroyed in Rockport." data-credit="Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_47643-8805e.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1600" data-ratio="1.751" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="44c28b44-8a7e-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A law enforcement official leaves a damaged Rockport home after searching for survivors." data-credit="Darren Abate/European Pressphoto Agency" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/06165319.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4000" data-ratio="1.479" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="b851b11c-8a9b-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="The roof of a Citgo gas station sits in floodwaters in Aransas Pass, Tex." data-credit="Eric Gay/Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_53123-1aaff.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5042" data-ratio="1.583" data-title=" Aug. 26, 2017 " data-uuid="85be71d6-8a78-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An airplane is damaged by a destroyed hangar at Rockport Airport." data-credit="Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/Interactivity/Images/AFP_RV2RR.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5392" data-ratio="1.453" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="2e056dd2-8a91-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An abandoned car lies in a ditch along a road of downed power utility poles in Rockport." data-credit="Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/Interactivity/Images/AFP_RV2QM.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4784" data-ratio="1.434" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="34ad9434-8a91-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A woman leaves the doorway of a destroyed house in Fulton." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-26T194045Z_9164225_RC15AAEDA0B0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.574" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="d666d39e-8a9b-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Lisa Rehr holds her four-year old son Maximus after they lost their home in Rockport, Tex." data-credit="Adrees Latif/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/27/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-27T021146Z_217274845_RC16BAB43CE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.499" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="5076be6c-8ad6-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Women use a smartphone in the dark as they seek refuge in the Good Samaritan Rescue Mission in Corpus Christi." data-credit="Adrees Latif/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/Interactivity/Images/2017-08-26T172519Z_1284366565_RC126ED8B110_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY-HOMELESS.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.499" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="b99e3280-8a90-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="National Guard vehicles arrive in Port Aransas." data-credit="Gabe Hernandez/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/Interactivity/Images/Harvey_71763-8d73e.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4397" data-ratio="1.461" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="69113776-8a91-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A dog walks out into floodwaters in Bacliff." data-credit="Stuart Villanueva/Galveston County Daily News via Associated Press" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/26/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_64900-e0677.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2709" data-ratio="1.316" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="e4b7465e-8a9b-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="The Bayfront Seafood restaurant in Palacios is surrounded by floodwaters." data-credit="David J. 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Instead, officials instructed residents on the barrier island and low-lying areas inland to evacuate on a voluntary basis.</p> <p>“We are up to and almost at the threshold of mandatory evacuations, but we are not going to cross that line right now,” McComb said. “We are going in the strongest possible terms to encourage the residents in the low-lying areas, as they say, ‘Get out of Dodge.’ ”</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Nueces County Judge Samuel L. Neal, who is overseeing the county’s emergency response, did not rule out mandatory evacuations but said such a move would not be done lightly.</p> <p id="U12203842941310BmH">“We will do it if we feel it’s necessary,” he said. “This would create a major, major impact on the way a lot of people do business.”</p> <p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) declared a preemptive state of disaster in 30 counties, including Harris County, home to Houston, the fourth most-populated city in the country. Charles Bujan, mayor of the barrier-island city of Port Aransas, Tex., ordered all citizens to evacuate except those working as emergency responders.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Long has stressed in interviews with The Washington Post that state and local officials need to improve their emergency readiness and recognize that it is not the federal government’s responsibility alone to respond to natural disasters.</p> <p>Long has also urged citizens to understand that they will often be their own first responders in a crisis.</p> <p>“People need to be the help before the help arrives,” he said earlier this month.</p> <p>Long met with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Louisiana Gov. 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He said the city has brought in 26 generators to provide electricity during an emergency.</p> <p>“Right now, there’s no reason to panic, but you know, everybody should just be focused on getting their plans in order,” Walker said. “While we’re in a stronger position than we were in the last drainage incident, we’re still vulnerable.”</p> <p>Harvey would be the first hurricane to hit Texas since <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091300843.html" shape="rect">Ike, a high Category 2 storm</a>, came ashore in September 2008 in Galveston and caused tens of billions of dollars in property damage.</p> <p>In Corpus Christi, some residents on Thursday left work early to begin preparing their homes, while others headed out of town or contemplated hitting the road before the storm arrived.</p> <p>“Everybody’s just trying to get away from this area right now,” said Ricky Nesmith, the kitchen manager at Blackbeard’s On the Beach.</p> <p id="U12203842941310qr">Nesmith said a full staff came into the restaurant Thursday morning, but most workers left early to get their homes ready. The looming storm has not slowed business, Nesmith said, saying that large groups kept the restaurant busy Thursday before the owner decided to close up shop early.</p> <p>Bill Sissamis, who owns the Silverado Smokehouse, a barbecue restaurant about two miles from the water, said that he would stay open as long as the weather allows.</p> <p>“We do tend to get a lot of false alarms here,” said Sissamis, 54, of previous storm warnings, adding, “The city goes a little bit nuts.”</p> <p id="U12203842941310LTG">The Gulf of Mexico is vitally important for the nation’s oil infrastructure. Offshore platforms produce about 1.7 million barrels a day, nearly a fifth of U.S. crude oil production. 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