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                        <div class="gallery_slide_description"><p>The storm&rsquo;s track currently has it heading for the southeastern coast of Texas and curving east toward Louisiana early next week. Gov. John Bel Edwards is ramping up Louisiana's emergency response team in preparation for the possibility of a Category 1 hurricane <a href="http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2017/08/edwards_category_1_hurricane_t.html"><strong>hitting the coast of Texas</strong></a> as early as Friday.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Tropical-storm-force winds from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> are likely to first reach the coast of Texas by early Friday: <a href="https://t.co/Z7LVfvm2ps">https://t.co/Z7LVfvm2ps</a> <a href="https://t.co/SrFI7j2ubH">pic.twitter.com/SrFI7j2ubH</a></p>
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