The menacing Hurricane Harvey has made landfall in Texas as a category four storm with winds of up to 210 kilometres per hour, making it the most powerful storm in over a decade to hit the mainland United States.
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| Traffic lights in Corpus Christi were knocked down as Hurricane Harvey approached. |
The hurricane made second landfall about 1:00am local time (4:00pm AEST) near the shore of Copano Bay, north-east of Corpus Christi and was downgraded to a category three, the National Weather Service said.
Tens of thousands of people fled inland before Harvey hit, packing winds of 215 kilometres per hour and sparking fears it could be the most destructive since Katrina left 1,800 people dead in 2005.
Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor about 10:00pm local time (1:00pm AEST) and is expected to dump over 90 centimetres of rain along the Texas coast and parts of Louisiana as it lingers for days.
Read the ABC News story - “Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas, could be 'on par with Katrina’.”
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