Harvey Brings Catastrophic Floods to Houston; at Least Five Reported Dead
It’s bad now and it’s getting worse.” — CHRISTINA CARON and CHRISTOPHER MELE in New York
The storm pummeled Houston and the surrounding region, bringing catastrophic flooding
and killing at least five people in the region, the National Weather Service said Sunday.
Help will be there.” — CHRISTINA CARON in New York
Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to bring additional rainfall of 15 to 25 inches through Friday over the middle
and upper Texas coast, including the Houston and Galveston metropolitan areas, the National Hurricane Center said in an update at 2 p.m. Eastern.
We don’t know anything.” — JULIE TURKEWITZ in Houston
The effects associated with Tropical Storm Harvey are “unprecedented”
and “unknown and beyond anything experienced,” the National Weather Service said in a tweet.
— MATTHEW HAAG in New York
Eighty members of New York City’s Urban Search and Rescue task force left Brooklyn
in a convoy headed to Houston Sunday to aid in storm recovery efforts.
As tropical storm Harvey pummeled the city of Houston Sunday morning, Maya Wadler, 17, sat awake, alone
and scared, one of millions of Texans trapped in Harvey’s path.