{"id":323300,"date":"2017-08-26T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hurricane-harvey-hammers-texas-coast\/"},"modified":"2017-08-26T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:51:45","slug":"hurricane-harvey-hammers-texas-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hurricane-harvey-hammers-texas-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Harvey hammers Texas coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 25 Aug, 2017 19:34 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 26 Aug, 2017 06:38 <\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media  \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.08\/original\/59a077f9dda4c8f1258b4567.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane Harvey hammers Texas coast\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>        Hurricane Harvey, accompanied by flash floods and severe storms, barrels along the coast of Texas, causing damage almost comparable to Hurricane Katrina of 2005. Authorities urge Texans to evacuate the coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__updates-dates\">\n<div class=\"js-listing\">\n<div class=\"js-listing__content\">\n<ul class=\"card-list\">\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\">\n<p class=\"updates-dates__date\">26 August 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">08:38 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>Hours after it struck land in the US, Hurricane Harvey has weakened to a Category 2 storm, according to reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">07:48 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>Flash flood warnings have been issued across Texas with areas experiencing up to 30 inches of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Tornado watch is in effect until 1pm local time. The US National Weather Service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hgx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> that twisters are possible as Hurricane Harvey moves slowly through the state.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere have been brief spin-ups seen on radar along some of these tropical bands.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">07:24 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>Category 3 Hurricane Harvey continues to travel up the north-east coast of Texas. Winds have reached a reported max speed of 140mph in areas such as Rockport and Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tP5_wav6QZo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><center\/><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">05:57 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>By initial indications, Harvey is likely to become worse than Hurricane Katrina, which struck America\u2019s southeastern coast in August 2005. The tropical cyclone, one of the deadliest in US history, left over 1,200 dead. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">05:55 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump says the federal government is monitoring the situation in Texas, writing on Twitter: <em>\u201cWe will remain fully engaged with open lines of communication as Hurricane Harvey makes landfall. America is with you!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">05:55 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>NASA satellites captured a chilling photo of the eye of the storm, clearly visible from Earth\u2019s orbit. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">03:47 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>Major destruction is being reported out of Rockport, Texas, where the National Weather Service says <em>&#8220;buildings collapsed with people trapped inside.&#8221;<\/em> NWS also reported <em>&#8220;numerous structures destroyed&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;debris filling the air&#8221;<\/em> as winds gust at 125mph or over 130mph in some areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">02:46 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>Hurricane Harvey is once again a Category 4 hurricane, after being reported as falling back to a Category 3 earlier Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">02:42 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>WXChasing, a storm chaser group, is\u00a0live on Facebook from Rockport, Texas, where some of the most extreme weather from Hurricane Harvey has doused the city and homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"card-list__item\">\n<div class=\"updates-dates\"><strong class=\"updates-dates__time\">02:34 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"updates-dates__text text\">\n<p>The Texas city of Rockport is experiencing some of the worst effects of Hurricane Harvey so far. One person recording from inside a hotel there reported structural damage, including stairwells coming apart from the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the mayor of Rockport advised those who were disobeying evacuation orders to write their names and Social Security numbers on their arms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/400915-hurricane-harvey-texas-coast\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 25 Aug, 2017 19:34 Edited time: 26 Aug, 2017 06:38 Hurricane Harvey, accompanied by flash floods and severe storms, barrels along the coast of Texas, causing damage almost comparable to Hurricane Katrina of 2005. Authorities urge Texans to evacuate the coastal areas. 26 August 2017 08:38 GMT Hours after it struck land in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-323300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}