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    <h1 class="megaheadline post-title">Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as Category 4</h1>
    <p class="article-heading-des">Trump signs disaster order as storm with winds of up to 215km per hour is feared worst to hit US mainland in 12 years.</p>
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      <h4 class="branded-underline-title embeded-box-name">HURRICANE HARVEY</h4><ul>
<li>First Category 4 hurricane to hit US in 12 years, bringing one-metre of rainfall</li>
<li>Evacuation orders issued to help Texans seek shelter from winds of up to 215 km/h</li>
<li>Hospital, oil platforms around Gulf also evacuated</li>
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    <div class="article-p-wrapper" id="body-200771816342556199"><p>A powerful storm has made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane in what officials have warned could be a "major disaster" for the US state and surrounding areas.Â </p>
<p>The eye of Hurricane Harvey hit land between the Port of AransasÂ and Port O'Connor, Texas late on Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center.Â </p>
<p>It is expected to be the most powerful hurricane to hit the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html">US</a> mainland since 2005.</p>
<p>Prior to the storm making landfall, US President <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/people/donald-trump.html">Donald Trump</a> signed a disaster proclamation for Texas, freeing up federal funds for assistance.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, Texas Governor Greg Abbott had asked Trump to preemptively declare Harvey a "major disaster" in order to speed federal aid.</p>
<p>"We can obviously tell already at this stage this is going to be a very major disaster," Abbot said, as more than 1,000 National Guardsmen were activated.</p>
<p><span>"We're going to be dealing with really record-setting flooding in multiple regions."</span></p>
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<p>Al Jazeera's Allen Schauffler, reporting from Victoria, Texas, said: "Some of the smaller communties up the Gulf coast of Texas are now really bearing the brunt of the storm surge and the high winds."</p>
<p>Category 4 winds can top 230km per hour.</p>
<p>"It's really an extraordinary and dangerous storm,"Â <span>Schauffler said.Â </span></p>
<p class="ReadMoreContentSeparator"><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/climate-change-2017-atlantic-hurricane-season-170605112745578.html" target="_self"> READ MORE: Climate change and the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season</a></p>
<p>Motorways leading from coastal areas were jammed as authorities issued urgent warnings to hundreds of thousands of residents to flee. Some motorways were to be turned into one-way roads to speed the exodus from the storm zone.</p>
<p>There were also reports of massive power outages as the storm approached Texas' coast.Â </p>
<p>Harvey, the first major storm of the annual Atlantic <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/hurricanes-141021132039491.html">hurricane</a> season, was packing maximum sustained winds of 195km per hour.</p>
<p>The storm is expected to dump up to 89cm of rain over a four or five-day period in parts of Texas.</p>
<h2>Major test for Trump</h2>
<p>Satellite images showed the massive storm system extending hundreds of kilometres into the Gulf of Mexico.Â </p>
<p>It is forecast to be the most powerful hurricane to hit the mainland since Wilma<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/10/200849125413505590.html"> struck Florida</a> in 2005, and could inflict billions of dollars in damage.</p>
<p>Before Wilma, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/08/2008410163316855132.html">Hurricane Katrina</a> pummelled New Orleans in the same year, leaving more than 1,800 people dead and becoming a <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2006/02/20084915259533549.html">major failure</a>Â of the presidency of George W Bush.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> made landfall at 10 PM CDT as a category 4 hurricane near Rockport, Texas, with max winds of 130 mph and min pressure of 938 mb. <a href="https://t.co/98y5wpKmBw">pic.twitter.com/98y5wpKmBw</a></p>
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<p>The arrival of Harvey is likely to be a major test for the Trump, who the White House said would head to the affected region early next week.</p>
<p>Officials said Trump was being briefed regularly on the storm and had spoken to Texas and Louisiana governors.</p>
<p>"I encourage everyone in the path of <a class="InternalLink" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#HurricaneHarvey&src=typd" target="_blank">#HurricaneHarvey</a> to heed the advice & orders of their local and state officials," Trump tweeted on Friday. <br> <br> "This storm will likely be very destructive for several days," the White House added in a statement.</p>
<h2>'Just terrifying'</h2>
<p>Before the storm hit, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), prepositioned emergency supplies.</p>
<p>In 2005, Bush faced severe criticism after FEMA appeared unprepared for the devastating damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina.</p>
<p>"Keep on top of hurricane Harvey don't make same mistake President Bush made with Katrina," Republican Senator Chuck Grassley urged the Trump in a tweet.</p>
<p>FEMA chief Brock Long said the most pressing danger was the storm surge, the high tides powered by powerful winds - expected to reach between 1.8 metres and 3.6 metres in some areas - but said many inland counties should prepare for "significant" flooding.</p>
<p class="ReadMoreContentSeparator"><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/climate-change-wipe-25tn-global-assets-160404181639546.html" target="_self"> Climate change could wipe $2.5 trillion off global assets </a></p>
<p>Al Jazeera's Diane Easterbrook, reporting from Galveston, Texas, said that the storm is "turning out to be much worse than anyone had expected".</p>
<p>She added that just a few days ago, it was "only a minor tropical depression".Â </p>
<p>Meteorologist Eric Holthaus told AFP news agency that the prospect of the storm stalling on the coast, lashing it with heavy rain for days, "is just terrifying".</p>
<p>"This is the sort of storm that meteorologists prepare for and think about for years," he said.</p>
<p>Coastal Texas is a fast-growing area, with some 1.5 million people moving into the area since 1999.</p>
<p>Authorities said the combination of dense growth and perhaps a year's worth of rain falling in just days could prove deadly. <br> <br> Local television footage showed supermarket aisles plucked bare, houses and shops with windows boarded over, and long lines snaking outside gas stations.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Leaving my little house and hoping that Hurricane Harvey doesn't to too much damage to it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash">#HurricaneHarvey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> <a href="https://t.co/fw5Tc3KSwV">pic.twitter.com/fw5Tc3KSwV</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Kroger by my parents house in SE Houston.. Praying all our neighbors in the the south! ðð¾ Updates on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash">#HurricaneHarvey</a> tomorrow on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JoeTV?src=hash">#JoeTV</a> <a href="https://t.co/6Ezq5gt91C">pic.twitter.com/6Ezq5gt91C</a></p>
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<p>Those who had evacuated said they were "just trying to get ahead of the storm".</p>
<p>"It has been pretty stressful," Corpus Christi resident Corey Martinez told Reuters news agency at a gas station about 77km north of Houston.</p>
<p>"We're just trying to get ahead of the storm. We've never been through a hurricane before," he said.Â </p>
<p>David Ramirez, another Corpus Christi resident, left his home early on Friday to wait out the storm in San Antonio, Texas.</p>
<p>"With the level of storm surge they're talking about, there isn't a lot I could do to protect my house," Ramirez said.</p>
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