Hurricane Harvey smashed into Texas near the coastal town of Rockport overnight, leveling buildings and lashing low-lying areas with intense rain and winds up to 130mph. The National Hurricane Center said “rainfall of this magnitude will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flooding”. Authorities told residents who decided to stay they should write their social security numbers on their forearms, to aide identification of their bodies. Trump should “keep on top of hurricane Harvey”, Grassley tweeted, adding: “Dont mke same mistake Pres Bush made w Katrina.”Trump responded that he had received Grassley’s message “loud and clear. So far, so good!”Texas residents flee as Hurricane Harvey intensifies – in pictures Read moreHarvey is the fiercest hurricane to hit the US since 2005 and the strongest to strike Texas since Hurricane Carla in 1961, the most powerful in state records.

Source: The Guardian August 26, 2017 14:35 UTC