William Harvey inflicted ruinous damage this retiring weekend , decimating the Texas coast as a Category 4 Hurricane , dumping feet of rainfall and fetch massive floods . But it ’s still a Tropical Storm , and it is not finished yet .
Harvey ’s center has headed back out to the Gulf of Mexico , where extra wet is causing electrical storm to build up yet again . Meteorologistspredictthat the storm will institute another salvo of rain and thunderstorms to Texas and Louisiana before eventually letting up . But today , the telephone call for help are roll in .
A US Coast Guard Lieutenant , Mike Hart , told CNNthat the Coast Guard has received over a thousand calls per hour . germ only reportten or sofatalities forge the storm , but flood waterskeep on risingandofficials expectthe number to increase . The story of destructionis staggering .

The violent storm has already dumped historical amounts of water , pommel at least one Houston Metro atmospheric condition post with almost 40 inches of rain between 8PM CT , Thursday and 10AM CT , Monday , according toWeather Underground . Harvey has revert to sea , and its hereafter still moderate uncertainty . Models do n’t expect its winds to regain hurricane forcefulness , but the saturated moisturecould dump further rain over Texas and Southern Louisianatoday into tomorrow , and even bringfurther storm surgesto coastal communities . Floodwaters will continue to rise as rivers swell and reservoirs expiration overflow .
Here ’s the latest on#Harvey . Improving conditions forecast after today.#houwx#glswx#txwxpic.twitter.com/3vxOWluk6q
— NWS Houston ( @NWSHouston)August 29 , 2017

Weather Underground writes : “ The bottom line : although there is more incertitude than we ’d care in how much rain will fall across southeasterly Texas through Wednesday , the higher - terminal possibility remain very big for the Houston field , especially for Tuesday into early Wednesday . ”
Rescue feat continue to focus on resident physician strand by the floodwaters in and around the Houston area , as Mayor Sylvester Turner did not place evacuation prior to the tempest ( reactionsaremixedas to whether that was a good idea—130 people died in the evacuations during 2005 ’s Hurricane Rita ) . And of trend , other neighborhoods along the Texas seacoast have faced end as well . Now , rescue folks are filling Houston ’s convention inwardness and other shelter in what Turner called “ lily pads , ” the unflooded areas . More than 30,000 could havelost their menage .
If you ’d like to help , Gizmodo ’s Tom McKay include this advice in a post last dark :

TheHouston Presshas compiled a lean of food banks which are accepting donation to serve take care of storm refugee and others impacted by Harvey , while other grouping like theRed Cross , coalescency for the HomelessandHeart to Heart Internationalare also asking for the populace to attend with recovery efforts .
Others still are hoard tweets and societal media posts of those in need to try and match themwith responder . FEMA has alsocompileda list of numbers and other resource , The Mary Sue web log has alist of ways to help , as doesthe Houston Chronicle .
That ’s all we ’ve get for now , but will continue to update and post as we get more entropy .

[ h / t Still Cat from MA ]
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