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Hurricane Harvey strengthens to Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds
ABC News ^ | August 25, 2017

Posted on 08/25/2017 4:19:41 PM PDT by SMGFan

Hurricane Harvey has strengthened to a Category 4 storm, as Texas is bracing for impact later Friday evening. The storm, which has maximum sustained winds of 130 mph with even stronger gusts, is expected to be the worst to hit the state in nearly two decades. Residents staying in the area frantically stocked up on food, water and gas, while others heading out of the storm's path boarded up windows and doors of their homes and businesses.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/june-hurricanes-tropical-storms-formation-locations


21 posted on 08/25/2017 4:50:54 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan

Have they started blaming trump yet?


22 posted on 08/25/2017 4:53:49 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: SMGFan

Have they started blaming trump yet?


23 posted on 08/25/2017 4:55:59 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: SMGFan

Lots and lots of actual coastal homes are built on stilts. It will be interesting to see how these fare.


24 posted on 08/25/2017 4:58:27 PM PDT by umgud
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To: SMGFan

Natural disasters are dealt with locally. Any help will come after. Or are Texans going to whine like New Yorkers now?


25 posted on 08/25/2017 5:00:16 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: SMGFan

is Trump supposed to stand out in the bay and dare the hurricane to land?

At least President Trump’s acknowledging there is a hurricane to be concerned about, unlike a certain former mayor of New Orleans


26 posted on 08/25/2017 5:01:38 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Cubs Fan

twitchy should keep us updated. https://twitchy.com/

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/08/25/unhinged-trump-is-being-blamed-because-theres-no-food-on-the-shelves-in-houston-harvey2017/


27 posted on 08/25/2017 5:01:38 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: grimalkin

Tell me you see it.


28 posted on 08/25/2017 5:06:18 PM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: SMGFan

Paging Ray Nagan


29 posted on 08/25/2017 5:10:00 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: SMGFan

Caused by GoreBull warming don’tcha know.


30 posted on 08/25/2017 5:19:49 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hurricane Katrina was only Category 1 when she crossed southern FL then entered the Gulf of Mexico. Then, it turned north and grew to be a monster storm as is headed to New Orleans. It’s eerily similar.


31 posted on 08/25/2017 5:20:23 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Part of George W Bush’s and Rove’s hurricane making machine. President Trump must have found it in the White House basement.


32 posted on 08/25/2017 5:31:28 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Has a hurricane ever just up and formed in the Gulf before? This storm came out of nowhere.

Yes. http://www.pennwellblogs.com/tropics_watch/2010-07-06/tropical-disturbance-near-northern-yucatan-a-gulf-threat/

33 posted on 08/25/2017 5:35:00 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Recompennation

I guess the Houston mayor has been telling people to shelter in place; he didn’t want the highways turned into a parking lot. Either way, it’s gonna be ugly. AND Trump’s fault.


34 posted on 08/25/2017 5:44:28 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Kozak

Just about every county in Texas is or already has sent rescue and other services that way. All the military bases are ready to swoop in as soon as they can. We’re taking in refuges as far away as 300 miles and can go farther if need be. All types of contraction people are headed that way with electrical being the most important.


35 posted on 08/25/2017 6:05:23 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: SMGFan

I have faith in the Texans to take care of the damage as well as did Mississippi did after Katrina. New Orleans was a disaster because of the leadership and the people of New Orleans. Katrina hit Mississippi and New Orleans didn’t get the damage from the storm as did Mississippi. The corruption and incompetence of the leaders of New Orleans doomed that city. Mississippians had truckloads of supplies on their way South as soon as the storm cleared.


36 posted on 08/25/2017 6:12:12 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: SMGFan

Didn’t it just hit Cat 3 today?


37 posted on 08/25/2017 6:18:58 PM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden can't be fought)
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To: Seruzawa

“Blood! Death! Disaster! Hobgoblins!

The MSM is in 7th heaven. They live for death and destruction.”9

May it be theirs...soon.


38 posted on 08/25/2017 6:24:06 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: pfflier

Yeah, but he wouldn’t have directed it to Texas.


39 posted on 08/25/2017 6:26:19 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: grania
Hurricane Katrina was only Category 1 when she crossed southern FL then entered the Gulf of Mexico. Then, it turned north and grew to be a monster storm as is headed to New Orleans.

Katrina was Katrina because the levees broke. Without that disaster, the storm is just a rough hurricane.

40 posted on 08/25/2017 6:56:14 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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