“I expect that number to be significantly higher once the roads become passable,” said Erin Barnhart, the chief medical examiner for Galveston County. • The city of Houston imposed a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., starting Tuesday night and continuing until further notice. By the evening, evacuated residents were setting up cots in corridors because they said the main dormitories were uncomfortably crowded. Dan Diaz, 84, was rescued from his girlfriend’s house, which normally sits 30 feet above Buffalo Bayou in Houston. The storm was projected to make a second landfall, in the region of Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Wednesday.

Source: New York Times August 30, 2017 01:28 UTC