By Juan Montoya
Hurricane Harvey veered north of the mouth of the Rio Grande late Thursday night and the Coastal Bend is bracing for the onslaught of what weather forecasters are saying might be a Category 3 hurricane packing winds of over 111 miles per hour.
Meanwhile, residents all along the Gulf Coast from Brownsville to Freeport are expecting the storm to stall and possibly return to the warm waters of the gulf after making landfall, and dump torrential rains on these cities, in some cases predicted between 20 to 30 inches.
Throughout Thursday and early Friday, residents continued to line up to collect sandbags distributed by the city and Cameron County preparing for the flooding that is expected as the storm weakens and strengthens off the coast.
And residents from Corpus Christi and Houston as well as other coastal cities packed the hurricane evacuation routes leading away from the coast.
Photographs taken from the International Space Station shows that Harvey developed quickly from a tropical storm into a full-fledged hurricane after it survived the trek across the Yucatan peninsula Wednesday and emerged into the Gulf of Mexico.
Since then, it has been fed by above-average warm waters and upper level winds that have allowed it to gather strength without deviating it to the north and away from South Texas.
6 comments:
There will be plenty of Shrimp to be harvested after storm. Fresh Pennaeus Azteca JUMBO SHRIMP.
Is it true that a Spanish galleon ship sunk near the mouth of the river in the 1600's?Was it carrying a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary? When it sunk was this statue on the deck facing out toward the Gulf? Hurricane Allen stalled there in 1980, Hurricane Buelah in 1967 hit but we had no fatalities. Maybe the Brownsville/Matamoros area is protected from severe damage from a Hurricane or anything elso coming out of the Gulf? Prayer works.
Joe Yoste the SLICER
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What about the hurricane in the thirties? I thought it caused a lot of damage, not sure about the death toll though.
This might be a 3rd world city, a poor illiterate city, poor infrastructure, bad city and county government but I rather live here than where they're getting a DIRECT HIT.
God loves us. That does NOT mean that we are rich and powerful and have everything. It means that God gives you a chance to work for a second chance in life.
THANK YOU Diosito.
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