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Harvey Doubling Back After Houston Deluge, Louisiana in Crosshairs
Among the latest confirmed victims of the now tropical storm was veteran Houston Police Officer Steve Perez, 60, who drowned while driving to work on Sunday, the city's police chief, Art Acevedo, confirmed just hours after his body was found earlier Tuesday.
As it makes landfall again, Harvey was expected to pack winds of up to 45 mph and drench the upper Texas coast and southwestern Louisiana with anywhere from six to 12 inches of rain before heading deeper into Dixie, the National Weather Service warned.
Louisiana Gov. Jon Bel Edwards said they expect to get even more rain and warned there could be power outages and hundreds of trees could topple because the ground is already saturated.
"It is not going to turn back into a hurricane or anything of the sort, but the winds are picking up a bit," Edwards said. "We do anticipate over the next 24 hours that southwest Louisiana will see an additional 10 to 24 inches of rain."
Some 500 people were evacuated from the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Louisiana border where Harvey is expected to make landfall around midday Wednesday, Edwards said.
More than 250 were already bunking in Louisiana shelters, more than a dozen government offices were closed, and 671 members of the Louisiana National Guard were “working on Harvey operations,” the governor said...
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...r-houston-deluge-louisiana-crosshairs-n797221
God Bless all of those going through this.