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			<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><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3698134/donald-trump-news-during-hurricane-harvey/">Here’s all the news Donald Trump has dropped during Hurricane Harvey</a></strong></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><strong>WATCH: Hurricane Harvey delivers damaging winds and flooding to Texas coast</strong></p>			<a class="story-img-link" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-stickyiframe="video_3698035" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/3698035/#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=video_3698035">
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<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>&#8220;It was terrible,&#8221; resident Joel Valdez, 57, told Reuters. The storm ripped part of the roof from his trailer home at around 4 a.m., he said. &#8220;I could feel the whole house move.&#8221;</p><p>Valdez said he stayed through the storm to look after his animals. &#8220;I have these miniature donkeys and I don&#8217;t know where they are,&#8221; he said, as he sat in a Jeep with windows smashed by the storm.</p><p><strong>WATCH: Hurricane Harvey makes landfall battering Texas coast</strong></p>			<a class="story-img-link" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-stickyiframe="video_3698025" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/3698025/#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=video_3698025">
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		<p>Resident Frank Cook, 56, also stayed through the storm.</p><p>&#8220;If you have something left of your house, you&#8217;re lucky,&#8221; he said, surveying the damage from his vehicle.</p><p>Before the storm hit, Rockport&#8217;s mayor told anyone staying behind to write their names on their arms for identification in case of death or injury.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500"><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">@NWSCorpus</a> <a href="https://t.co/RQ6XAwvvjx">pic.twitter.com/RQ6XAwvvjx</a></p><p>&mdash; Jeff Piotrowski (@Jeff_Piotrowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski/status/901452375180931072">August 26, 2017</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><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>&#8220;There is so much tree damage and debris that the cost of cleanup will be enormous,&#8221; Mayor Jack Whitlow told Reuters, after touring the city earlier Saturday.</p><p><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3698326/hurricane-harvey-oil-gas-operations-texas-gulf-coast/">Hurricane Harvey closes key oil and gas operations along Texas Gulf Coast</a></strong></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><strong>WATCH: Hurricane Harvey destroys high school in Rockport, Texas</strong></p>			<a class="story-img-link" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-stickyiframe="video_3698083" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/3698083/#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=video_3698083">
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		<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>
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	<p>Daybreak revealed downed lamp posts and tree limbs and roof tiles torn off buildings. The city&#8217;s marina was nearly unscathed, save an awning ripped from a restaurant entrance and a wooden garbage bin uprooted and thrown.</p><p>Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, motorists had to stop under bridges to avoid driving in whiteout conditions.</p><p>In Houston, rain fell at nearly 3 inches (76.2 millimeters) an hour, leaving some streets and underpasses underwater. The many drainage channels known as bayous that carry excess water to the Gulf were rising.</p><p>Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the chief administrator of the county that includes the city of 2.3 million, said flooding so far was a &#8220;minor issue,&#8221; but warned that &#8220;we&#8217;re not out of this.&#8221;</p>		<p>
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	<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>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><strong>WATCH: Travelers at Toronto Pearson International Airport impacted by Hurricane Harvey</strong></p>			<a class="story-img-link" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-stickyiframe="video_3697503" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/3697503/#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=video_3697503">
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		<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&#8217;s outer bands had already dumped six inches of rainfall on parts of the city by early Saturday afternoon.</p><p><strong>WATCH: Millions brace for potential disaster in Hurricane Harvey</strong></p>			<a class="story-img-link" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-stickyiframe="video_3697456" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/3697456/#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=video_3697456">
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		<p>The latest forecast storm track has Harvey looping back toward the Gulf of Mexico coast before turning north again on Tuesday. (<a href="http://tmsnrt.rs/2g9jZ0W" rel="nofollow">http://tmsnrt.rs/2g9jZ0W</a>)</p><p>&#8220;This rain will lead to a prolonged, dangerous, and potentially catastrophic flooding event well into next week,&#8221; the National Weather Service said. Harvey has triggered flash floods, the NWS said.</p><p><strong>WATCH: 5 things you need to know about Hurricane Harvey</strong></p>			<a class="story-img-link" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-stickyiframe="video_3696279" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/3696279/#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=video_3696279">
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