At least 22 confirmed dead as Harvey pivots toward Louisiana

HOUSTON — The biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States finally began to move away from Houston on Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey and its endless, merciless rain bands spun east to menace Louisiana instead.

Houston officials described a vast rescue effort
and said about 3,500 people had been brought to safety.

A storm surge warning for the coast from Holly Beach to Morgan City, La., said water levels could rise two to four feet above normally dry land when the center of the storm approached for a second landfall Tuesday night, The Post’s Capital Weather Gang reported. To the east, New Orleans was under a flash flood warning Tuesday morning.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a news conference Tuesday to “prepare and pray.”

In Texas, the storm was still moving east, still deadly.

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