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  <h1>Hurricane Harvey: It&#039;s big. Really big. And some say it could be as bad as Hurricane Katrina</h1>



  
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  <p>Tropical Storm Harvey is not your typical storm.</p><p>The US National Weather Service has described it as <strong>"unprecedented"</strong> and warned its impacts will be "beyond anything experienced".</p><p>Those aren't words that are used lightly.</p><p>And by now you've probably seen how big it is, from this photo taken from the International Space Station:</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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       Here's what Hurricane Harvey looked like from space as it neared the coast of Texas. <span class="source">(Reuters: NASA)</span>
      </a></div><p> </p><p>But if that's not enough, let's try adding some more perspective.</p><h2>It's affecting millions of people</h2><p>Harvey is smashing into the east coast of Texas at the moment and is making its way west.</p><p>The state of Texas has a population of <strong>27.8 million people</strong>, more than the entire population of Australia.</p><p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday that <strong>50 counties</strong> had been declared state disaster areas.</p><p>It's not clear how many people have been rescued from floodwaters. Up to <strong>1,200 people</strong> had to be rescued in Galveston County alone, said county judge Mark Henry, the county's top official.</p><p>More than <strong>80,000 people</strong> in Houston, a city of around 2 million, <a href="http://abc13.com/211000-customers-without-power-as-harvey-strikes-texas/2340044/" target="_self" title="">have been left without power</a>.</p><p>At least three people have been killed, and that's expected to rise.</p><h2>The water reached chest height in some areas</h2><div class="inline-content video full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>Harvey made landfall as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than <strong>50 years</strong>.</p><p>Already it's dumped about <strong>80 centimetres of water</strong> on Houston, and that's expected to double over the next few days.</p><p>That amount of water is so unprecedented that meteorologists had to update the colour charts on the weather service's official rainfall maps.</p><p>In some areas, people were forced to wade through <strong>chest-deep water</strong> as rivers and channels overflowed their banks.</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>In others, floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-storey homes.</p><p>Every major highway in the area has been flooded to some extent.</p><p>Some coastal parts of Texas are expected to receive <strong>127cm</strong> of rain by the end of the week, which is the same amount of rainfall those areas usually receive in an entire year.</p><p>To compare that to another storm, Tropical Storm Allison dumped 102cm of rain on Texas in 2011. That storm flooded <strong>70,000 homes</strong> and caused <strong>$9 billion in damage</strong>.</p><h2>The rescue effort is immense</h2><p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has <a href="/news/2017-08-28/fema-tweet/8849896" target="_self" title="">deployed more than 1,800 staff across Texas</a> in response to the disaster.</p><p>And according to ABC America, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has activated the <strong>entire Texas National Guard</strong>, or roughly 12,000 guardsmen, to help with the recovery effort.</p><p>In Houston alone, the mayor said there were at least <strong>22 aircrafts</strong>, <strong>35 boats</strong> and <strong>93 rubbish trucks</strong> working to help locate and rescue flood-affected residents.</p><p>Many of those rescues were of people trapped on their roofs or in their attics.</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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       These residents were rescued from their homes as they became surrounded by floodwaters in Houston. <span class="source">(AP: David J Phillip)</span>
      </a></div><p> </p><p>The city's 911 system has so far received 75,000 calls. It normally averages 8,000 to 9,000 calls per day.</p><p>Further north in Dallas, the city's convention centre has been turned into a "mega shelter" to house 5,000 evacuees. </p><h2>The US economy will take a hit</h2><p>A US insurance research group says the flood damage in Texas could equal that from <strong>Hurricane Katrina</strong> — the costliest natural disaster in US history.</p><p>Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, killing <strong>1,800 people</strong> and resulting in more than <strong>$15 billion</strong> in flood insurance losses.</p><p>That was paid for by the federal National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is the only source of flood insurance for most Americans.</p><p>But the NFIP is now deeply in debt and likely will have to be bailed out again by US taxpayers.</p><p>John Dickson, the president of the NFS Edge Insurance Agency, said about <strong>15 per cent</strong> of the Houston area was insured for flood.</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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       Floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey have rise high enough to begin filling two-storey homes. <span class="source">(AP: Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle)</span>
      </a></div><p> </p><p>Meanwhile, the storm has also struck at the heart of the country's oil and gas industry.</p><p>Several refineries have been closed and some offshore platforms have been evacuated.</p><p>So far that's knocked out <strong>11 per cent of US refining capacity</strong> and <strong>a quarter of oil production</strong> from the US Gulf of Mexico.</p><p>The Gulf is home to nearly half of the nation's refining capacity, and the reduced supply could affect gasoline supplies across the US.</p><p>Analysts say the outages will also limit the availability of US crude, gasoline and other refined products for global consumers and could <strong>push up prices</strong>.</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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