Without losing significant strength, the system will come ashore as the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961’s Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record. Steady traffic filled the highways leaving Corpus Christi, but there were no apparent jams. David Burkhardt drinks coffee while watching Hurricane Harvey roll in from his garage in Portland, Texas, on Friday. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast Friday night. The community northeast of Corpus Christi was a ghost town Friday, with every business boarded up.

Source: thestar August 25, 2017 22:12 UTC