‘Now is the time to urgently HIDE’: Time to prepare has run out as Hurricane Harvey approaches Texas with 110mph plus winds expected to lash the coast and up to 35 inches of rain potentially leaving some areas ‘uninhabitable for months
Final preparations made for landfall Friday morning, as winds rise and window for evacuation quickly closes
Hurricane Harvey now has maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, on the cusp of Category 3
Flooding predicted up to 100 miles inland, with ‘devastating’ floods predicted for coastal cities and towns
Officials urge anyone who has not evactuated to get out now, predicting ‘immense human suffering’
Harvey will become first hurricane to hit the state of Texas since 2008, when Category 2 Hurricane Ike struck
By Keith Griffith and Cheyenne Roundtree and Regina F. Graham
DailyMail.com
25 August 2017
Officials have said that the evacuation window is rapidly closing for the Texas coast as Hurricane Harvey barrels toward the state, which is expecting catastrophic flooding, power outages, winds up to 130mph and 35+ inches of rain.
The National Weather Service on Friday morning urged that preparations should be ‘rushed to completion’ adding that ‘conditions are expected to deteriorate throughout the day’.
‘Now is the time to urgently hide from the wind,’ the NWS said in a flash bulletin on Friday. ‘Failure to adequately shelter may result in serious injury, loss of life, or immense human suffering.’
Throughout the Texas coast, millions of people were bracing for a prolonged battering from the hurricane, which could be the fiercest such storm to hit the US in nearly a dozen years.
Forecasters labeled Harvey a ‘life-threatening storm’ that posed a ‘grave risk,’ saying it could swamp several counties more than 100 miles inland.
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