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                    <p class="sdc-news-story-article__byline">By Bethany Minelle, News Reporter</p>
        
                <p class="sdc-news-story-article__intro">Donald Trump has signed a disaster proclamation as he faces his first major emergency as President.</p>
        
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</div><p>Billed as the strongest hurricane to hit the US in 12 years, Hurricane Harvey landed on a stretch of coastline near the town of Rockport at around 10pm local time (4am UK time) bringing "life-threatening" winds of 130mph.</p><div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image">
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<p>Power to some homes was knocked out, and signs and pieces of palm tree littered the streets as the storm took hold.</p><p>There are also reports of roofs collapsing into houses, trees being uprooted and buildings being destroyed.</p><p>A county sheriff's department has also warned the public to be on the look out for alligators, washed out of their creek habitats by the storm surge and seeking higher ground.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-custom-markup" data-component-name="sdc-article-custom-markup"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gators and flooding advice via <a href="https://twitter.com/txgatorsquad">@txgatorsquad</a>: Expect them to be displaced. Simply looking for higher ground. Leave alone until water recedes <a href="https://t.co/nN1B5jvMyV">pic.twitter.com/nN1B5jvMyV</a></p>&mdash; FBCSO Texas (@FBCSO) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBCSO/status/900793654192869376">August 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<p>Initially classed as a category 4 hurricane, it has slowly weakened to a category 2. However, winds are still reaching 100mph.</p><p>The storm is expected to dump more than 3ft (90cm) of rain along the Texas coast and parts of Louisiana over several days.</p><p>Harvey has been compared to one of America's deadliest storms - Hurricane Katrina - which killed more than a thousand people in New Orleans in 2005. New Orleans does not lie in Harvey's direct path.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image">
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<p>Donald Trump wrote on Twitter: "At the request of the Governor of Texas, I have signed the Disaster Proclamation, which unleashes the full force of government help!"</p><p>The President is currently in Camp David "closely watching the path and doings of Hurricane Harvey".</p><div class="ad ad--mpu-mobile"><div class="sdc-site-au " data-ad-format="mpu" data-type=""><div class="sdc-site-au__mpu" data-role="ad-container" data-config="{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;mpu-inline-mobile&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;20346936\/skynews\/world\/content&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:{&quot;mobile&quot;:[[300,250]],&quot;tablet&quot;:[[300,250]],&quot;desktop&quot;:[[300,250]]},&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;platform&quot;:&quot;live&quot;,&quot;artId&quot;:11005943}}" data-targeting-strnativekey="" data-targeting-platform="" data-tag="" data-component-name="sdc-site-mpu" aria-label="Advertisement" id="mpu-inline-mobile" data-tolerance="2"></div></div>
</div><p>He earlier encouraged everyone in the path of the storm "to heed the advice and orders of their local and state officials".</p><p>The National Hurricane Center described the storm as "life-threatening, dangerous and catastrophic".</p><p>Sky News Correspondent Siobhan Robbins took shelter with some residents forced to leave their homes in the city of Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-video" data-component-name="sdc-article-video" data-provider="ooyala">
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<p>She said: "Officials have warned that this storm could cut off power and water and homes could be uninhabitable for months.</p><p>"Thousands have already been evacuated, but the worry is that people have heard all this before and still aren't getting themselves to safety."</p><p>Mayor of Rockport, Patrick Rios, warned residents remaining in the area to "mark their arm with a Sharpie pen with their name and social security number" to make it easier for rescuers to identify them.</p><p>Seven counties in Texas have ordered mandatory evacuations, and tens of thousands of people left their homes ahead of the storm's arrival.</p><div><div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-related-stories" data-component-name="sdc-article-related-stories">
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