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  <h1>Hurricane Harvey: Texas smashed by category 4 storm</h1>



  
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  <p>Hurricane Harvey has menaced the Texas coast with rain and heavy winds in what has been described as the fiercest storm to hit the United States in more than 10 years.</p><p>Thousands of people fled as the category four hurricane approached, while those who remained behind stocked up on food and water and put their final preparations into place as the storm loomed off the coast.</p><h2>Hurricane Harvey brought 215kph winds and heavy rain</h2><div class="inline-content photo full">
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       A boat is winds up stuck on a tree after Hurricane Harvey landed in the Coast Bend in Port Aransas. <span class="source">(AP: Gabe Hernandez/Corpus Christi Caller-Times)</span>
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       Business owner and resident Carlos Lopez clears debris from outside his shop in Rockport. <span class="source">(Reuters: Adrees Latif)</span>
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       Jennifer Bryant looks over the debris from her destroyed family business in Katy, Texas. <span class="source">(AP: David J. Phillip)</span>
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       A collapsed overhead gantry lies across Interstate 37, blocking the highway, in Corpus Christi, Texas. <span class="source">(Reuters: Mohammad Khursheed)</span>
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       Cars sit abandoned at a flooded gas station in Houston. <span class="source">(Reuters: Nick Oxford)</span>
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       Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls helps people in suburban Houston <span class="source">(AP: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle)</span>
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       Emergency crews raced to pull people from cars and homes as flood waters rose in Houston on Sunday. <span class="source">(AP: David J Phillip)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8847600-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="A man pulls a boat loaded carrying two dogs and two women through a flooded street " title="Family evacuates Houston home after Harvey" width="700" height="467"/>
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       The storm is the strongest to hit Texas in more than 50 years.  <span class="source">(AP: Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle)</span>
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       <span class="Lbl">A ranch house surrounded by floodwaters near Port Lavaca, Texas.</span> <span class="source">(Reuters: Rick Wilking)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8850408-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Houston&#039;s highway 45 is submerged from the effects of Hurricane Harvey." title="Highway indundated" width="700" height="467"/>
</a><a href="/news/2017-08-28/highway-indundated/8850500" class="inline-caption"><strong>
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       Houston's highway 45 is submerged from the effects of Hurricane Harvey. <span class="source">(Reuters: Richard Carson)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8850428-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Evacuees are airlifted in a US Coast Guard helicopter from a residential neighbourhood in Houston." title="Coast Guard rescue in Houston" width="700" height="467"/>
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       Evacuees are airlifted in a US Coast Guard helicopter from a residential neighbourhood in Houston. <span class="source">(Reuters: US Coast Guard Handout)</span>
      </a></div><p> </p><h2>Before the storm…</h2><h2>Texans were urged to secure property as Harvey approached</h2><div class="inline-content photo full">
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</a><a href="/news/2017-08-26/galveston-woman-walks-through-rain-from-hurricane-harvey/8845382" class="inline-caption"><strong>
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       Tens of thousands of people fled inland before Harvey hit, packing winds of 215 kilometres per hour. <span class="source">(AP: David Phillip)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8844940-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Crews install the final portion of a surge wall" title="Crews install surge wall ahead of Hurricane Harvey" width="700" height="467"/>
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        Photo:</strong>
       A surge wall on was installed near the Port Aransas ferry in Aransas Pass where the storm made landfall hours later. <span class="source">(AP: Nick Wagner)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8842050-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Residents fill sandbags while others wait in line." title="Residents fill sandbags ahead of Hurricane Harvey" width="700" height="467"/>
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       Brownsville residents waited in line to shovel and fill sandbags. <span class="source">(AP: Miguel Roberts, The Brownsville Herald)</span>
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       People were quick to stock up on essential items. <span class="source">(AP: David Phillip)</span>
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</a><a href="/news/2017-08-26/harvey_macg.jpg/8845380" class="inline-caption"><strong>
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       A business in Galveston is boarded up just hours before Hurricane Harvey made landfall. <span class="source">(AP: David J. Phillip)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845574-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Residents fix a wooden board to the window of their home." title="Residents fix a wooden board to the window of their home" width="700" height="467"/>
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       Residents attached wooden boards to the windows of homes in Victoria, Texas. <span class="source">(AP: Nicholas Galindo, The Victoria Advocate)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845286-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="A power generator tips in front of Texas&#039; CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital" title="Tipped power generator in Texas" width="700" height="467"/>
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        Photo:</strong>
       Fierce winds have lashed the towns of Rockport and Corpus Christi where the hurricane made landfall. <span class="source">(AP: Courtney Sacco)</span>
      </a></div><p> </p><h2>Residents in Harvey's path evacuated their homes </h2><div class="inline-content photo full">
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845300-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Paramedic wheels out resident towards a large van" title="Paramedics evacuate disabled residents in Galveston county" width="700" height="467"/>
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       Residents who required assistance were taken to evacuation centres. <span class="source">(AP: Giuseppe Barranco)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8844930-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Keedan holds his kitten as he waits with his family in an evacuation centre" title="Boy holds kitten at Hurricane Harvey evacuation centre" width="700" height="467"/>
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       The Garcias were one of the many families who decided to head to an evacuation centre. <span class="source">(AP: Eric Gay)</span>
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       Guadalupe and Ray Guerra waited to board a bus headed to San Antonio. <span class="source">(AP: Nick Wagner, Austin American-Statesman)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845498-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Two men rest while waiting in an evacuation centre." title="People rest in San Antonio" width="700" height="467"/>
</a><a href="/news/2017-08-26/people-rest-in-san-antonio/8845500" class="inline-caption"><strong>
        Photo:</strong>
       For many, Hurricane Harvey has brought back the haunting memories of Hurricane Katrina. <span class="source">(AP: Nick Wagner, Austin American-Statesman)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845332-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="A man rests while waiting to board an evacuation bus" title="A man rests while waiting to board an evacuation bus" width="700" height="467"/>
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       Residents wait anxiously as Hurricane Harvey batters Texas. <span class="source">(AP: Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845316-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="David Burkhardt drinks coffee in a camper chair in his garage" title="David Burkhardt drinks coffee while watching Hurricane Harvey roll in" width="700" height="467"/>
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        Photo:</strong>
       David Burkhardt made the decision to ride out the hurricane from his home in Portland. <span class="source">(AP: Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman)</span>
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  <img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8845290-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="Traffic lights lie on a street after being knocked down," title="Traffic lights lie on the street in Corpus Christi, Texas" width="700" height="467"/>
</a><a href="/news/2017-08-26/traffic-lights-lie-on-the-street-in-corpus-christi,-texas/8845458" class="inline-caption"><strong>
        Photo:</strong>
       Traffic lights were toppled as the storm approached. <span class="source">(Reuters: Adrees Latiff)</span>
      </a></div><p> </p>


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	<strong>Topics:</strong>
	
	<a href="/news/topic/disasters-and-accidents">disasters-and-accidents</a>,


	
	<a href="/news/topic/storm-disaster">storm-disaster</a>,


	
	<a href="/news/topic/united-states">united-states</a>
	
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