Hurricane Harvey Threatens Texas with 'Devastating' Floods
Texans from Houston to Corpus Christi are bracing for a wallop from Hurricane Harvey , which is rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico before its expected landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
Harvey will be the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas in nine years (and could be the first major hurricane to hit the U.S. since 2005). That long period of calm has experts worried that many people will be unprepared for the storm.
"There's a lot of uncertainty" in the forecast, "but you have to be aware that there's a really real risk that this could be a devastating event," Steven Bowen, director of impact forecasting at the reinsurance company at Aon Benfield, told Live Science . [Hurricane Season 2017 Guide]
The most worrying threat from the storm is the staggering amount of rain it is expected to dump on the area, Bowen and others said. This will put lives and property at risk in a region that has seen explosive growth in recent years and w...
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