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    <h1 class="megaheadline post-title">Harvey downgraded but major floods to engulf Texas</h1>
    <p class="article-heading-des">Storm downgraded to a tropical storm, but threatens US state with torrential rain as it slowly moves inland. </p>
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    <div class="article-p-wrapper" id="body-200771816342556199"><p>Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday as it slowly moved inland after hitting the US state of Texas with torrential rain and heavy winds.</p>
<p><span>At least one person has died as a result of the storm, according to the mayor of Rockport, Texas.</span></p>
<p>The storm is expected to cause massive flooding after battering the coast with 209km-per-hour winds.</p>
<p>Harvey is the strongest storm to hit the US state in more than 50 years.</p>
<p>It is expected to linger for days over Texas and bring more than 100cm of rain to some parts of the southern state.</p>
<p>The mayor of Houston said the city could receive as much as five to 7.5cm of rain an hour into Sunday night.Â </p>
<p>Parts of the state also experienced tornados spawned by Harvey, causing damage to homes, vehicles and buildings.Â </p>
<p>The latest forecast storm track has Harvey looping back towards the Gulf of Mexico coast before meandering north again on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Nearly 25cm of rain had already fallen in a few areas in southeastern Texas, the centre said. Flash <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/floods.html">floods</a> have already hit some areas, the National Weather Service said.</p>
<p>As many as six million people were believed to be in Harvey's path, as is the heart of the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html">United States</a>' oil-refining operations.</p>
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<p>The seaside town of Rockport, 48km north of the city of Corpus Christi, was hit hard.</p>
<p>Several homes had collapsed and many more buildings suffered damage. Roofs had been ripped off some and windows blown in.</p>
<p>Streets were flooded and strewn with power lines and debris. At a recreational vehicle sales lot, a dozen automobile homes were flipped over and one had been blown into the middle of the road.</p>
<p>While thousands fled the expected devastating flooding and destruction, many residents stayed put in imperilled towns and stocked up on food, fuel and sandbags.</p>
<p>"It was terrible," resident Joel Valdez, 57, told Reuters news agency. The storm ripped part of the roof from his trailer home. I could feel the whole house move."</p>
<p>Valdez said he stayed through the storm to look after his animals.</p>
<p>"I have these miniature donkeys and I don't know where they are," he said, sitting in a Jeep with windows smashed by the storm.</p>
<p>Resident Frank Cook, 56, also stayed through the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/hurricanes-141021132039491.html">hurricane</a>.</p>
<p>"If you have something left of your house, you're lucky," he said, surveying the damage from his vehicle.</p>
<p>Before the storm hit, Rockport's mayor told anyone staying behind to write their names on their arms for identification purposes - in case of death or serious injury.</p>
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<p>The coastal city of Port Lavaca, farther north on the coast, had no power and some streets were flooded.</p>
<p>"There is so much tree damage and debris that the cost of cleanup will be enormous," Mayor Jack Whitlow said after touring the city earlier Saturday.</p>
<p>The hurricane came ashore near Port Lavaca late on Friday with maximum winds of 209 km/h.</p>
<p>That made it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the second-highest category and the most powerful storm in more than a decade to hit the mainland United States.</p>
<p>The streets of Corpus Christi, which has about 320,000 residents, were deserted with billboards twisted and strong winds still blowing.</p>
<p>City authorities asked residents to reduce their use of toilets and faucets because power outages left waste water plants unable to treat sewage.</p>
<p>The city also asked residents to boil water before consumption.</p>
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