By Nicole Chavez, Eric Levenson and Steve Almasy, CNN, Updated 0322 GMT (1122 HKT) August 26, 2017. "The bottom line message is, right now, if people have not heeded the warning, again, their window to do so is closing," Long said. Kruger, from San Antonio, is on a bachelor party and is the best man. Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday morning near Cameron, Louisiana with maximum winds of 150 mph. The storm is expected to have up to 10 inches of rain and winds up to 50 mph.
#HurricaneHarvey #WeatherChannel #CorpusChristi #hurricane #gulfcoast, A post shared by Brittany Fowler (@bafowler1) on Aug 24, 2017 at 1:56pm PDT. A person stares at the sky as light rain and heavy winds slowly pick up in downtown Corpus Christi. A surfers is seen at J.P. Luby Park ahead of Tropical Storm Hanna, Friday, July 24, 2020. Surfers turn out at J.P. Luby Park ahead of Tropical Storm Hanna, Friday, July 24, 2020. A sign reading "Be Nice Harvey" was left behind on a boarded-up business in Port Aransas. Joey Walker, 25, works with the Galveston Island Beach Patrol and is riding out the storm from a house on Galveston Island. A man stands along the seawall before Hurricane Hanna, Saturday, July 25, 2020, as seen in Port Aransas. -- The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi issued an extreme wind warning for portions of the Texas coast.
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Rita was the 4th named storm to make landfall during the 2005 season, and the 3rd hurricane to strike the US. A boat sinks in Packery Channel in North Padre Island, Saturday, July 25, 2020, following Hurricane Hanna. The golden arches atop a McDonald's in Galveston were downed by high winds. The storm is expected to make landfall Saturday afternoon.
People walk along the beach to see the surge before Hurricane Hanna, Saturday, July 25, 2020, as seen in Port Aransas. Hurricane Hanna is expected to make landfall along the Coastal Bend Saturday afternoon. (CNN)Hurricane Harvey made landfall Friday night between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor, Texas, as a Category 4 storm with winds of 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. A mattress is seen in the storm surge on the beach before Hurricane Hanna, Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Port Aransas, Texas. Hurricane Laura is the first Category 4 or 5 storm to make landfall …
Rita was the fourth most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin as the time, and the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Palm trees are seen before Hurricane Hanna, Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Port Aransas, Texas. People are seen grabbing groceries and supplies ahead of Hurricane Hanna, Saturday, July 25, 2020, as seen in Port Aransas, Texas. "We could see this storm park for almost five days in some places, and we hear three feet of rain," said Bill Read, the former director of the National Hurricane Center.
Surfers attend J.P. Luby Park ahead of Tropical Storm Hanna, Friday, July 24, 2020.
A mass exodus from the coast caused extensive traffic jams along the state's highways, while other people boarded up windows and stocked up on food and water ahead of the storm, the effects of which are expected to last for days. Those swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Marco officially becomes a hurricane just ahead of noon Sunday, in the Gulf of Mexico, 10am update for tropical storms Marco and Laura.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said anyone not leaving should plan to stay off the roads once the storm starts. Hurricane Harvey, now a Category 4 storm, is hitting the Texas coast with harsh winds and torrential rain. Debris is seen coming onto the shore ahead of Hurricane Hanna in Port Aransas. Heavy rain becomes the main impacts with the storm system, in addition to extreme heat in the Lone Star State. CNN's Joe Sterling, Amanda Jackson, Matt Rehbein, AnneClaire Stapleton, Dakin Andone, David Williams, David Shortell, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Nick Valencia and Keith Allen contributed to this report. On this day in 2005, Hurricane Rita made landfall just east of Sabine Pass. First responders such as Brittany Fowler stayed behind and waited for the storm. https://t.co/N6uEWCZUrv, Hurricane Harvey isn't playing around, can't even see the beach! The storm is expected to make landfall on Saturday. "That's just going to be a huge problem for these areas.
Houston, Corpus Christi and Galveston are in its path. "Texas is about to have a very significant disaster," said Brock Long, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The combination of wind and water could leave wide swaths of South Texas "uninhabitable for weeks or months," the National Weather Service in Houston said. Here's a look at the current storm surge at Whitecap Beach, water has passed the dunes and will soon threaten HWY-361. "Hopefully, it doesn't do any damage, but if it does, we've prepared," Fowler, a firefighter in Corpus Christi, wrote on Instagram. The storm is expected to bring 5 to 10 inches of rain with isolated maximum totals of 15 inches through Sunday night in south Texas, the forecast states. "We've never had anything like this. Corpus Christi experienced heavy rainfall late Thursday morning and is expected to see flooding and three to six inches of rain through Monday.
Hurricane Hanna is expected to produce 5 to 10 inches of rain with isolated totals of 15 inches through Sunday evening in South Texas. -- President Donald Trump, who will visit the area next week, has signed a disaster declaration for the state.