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              <p class="speakable">Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a tropical storm after thrashing southern Texas, bringing heavy rain and “widespread devastation” in its wake.</p>
              
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              <p class="speakable">The National Hurricane Center said on Twitter on Saturday afternoon that extremely serious flooding was possible throughout the state.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              



    
    
    
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                    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Emergency broadcast: The entire area Holiday Park Beach,Fulton, Rockport, apartment buildings have collapsed. Help needed ASAP <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSCorpus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NWSCorpus</a> <a href="https://t.co/RQ6XAwvvjx">pic.twitter.com/RQ6XAwvvjx</a></p>&mdash; Jeff Piotrowski (@Jeff_Piotrowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski/status/901452375180931072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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              <p>High howling winds, downed power lines and intense flooding hit the Lone Star State in one of the strongest storms to slam into Texas in a decade.</p>
              
              
                             		
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              <p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said upwards of 20 inches of rain had &nbsp;hit the Corpus Christi area, which was in the path of the storm, and an additional 20 to 30 inches were expected elsewhere. He said 13,000 military members were activated.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              



    
    
    
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                    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rockport, TX damage via <a href="https://twitter.com/StormVisuals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StormVisuals</a>. Feeling for those folks <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneHarvey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/khou11?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#khou11</a> <a href="https://t.co/uoOuBEzPl0">pic.twitter.com/uoOuBEzPl0</a></p>&mdash; Jason Miles (@JMilesKHOU) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMilesKHOU/status/901446397035245568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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              <p>In Rockport, a small community on the coast, the storm brought in torrential rain and stinging win. While emergency crews were out early assessing the damage, Rockport’s mayor told the Weather Channel that his community was hit “right on the nose” and left “widespread devastation.”</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
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                    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At the request of the Governor of Texas, I have signed the Disaster Proclamation, which unleashes the full force of government help!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/901259509632573440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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              <p>By midday Saturday, some 338,000 customers along the Texas coast were without power, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas reported. In Houston, more than 21,000 people were without power.</p>
              
              
               
              
              
              


              
          
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