A damaged traffic light blocks a street as Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday. (AP Photo)CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: Hurricane Harvey has smashed into Texas, lashing a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain from the fiercest hurricane to hit the United States in more than a decade. A photo made available by Nasa via EPA shows an image acquired by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system of Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas on Friday local time. Harvey came ashore as the fiercest hurricane to hit the US in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record, in 1961. Based on the atmospheric pressure, Harvey ties for the 18th strongest hurricane on landfall in the US since 1851 and ninth strongest in Texas.

Source: Bangkok Post August 26, 2017 07:52 UTC