Donald Trump in Texas: Hurricane Harvey a Storm of ‘Epic Proportion’

In Houston, the largest shelter at the convention center has a capacity of 5,000 people, but as of Tuesday morning, it was housing more than 9,000 evacuees.

At least nine people are reported to have died, including six members of the same family whose van was swept away by rising floodwater, and a man in his 60s who apparently drowned while trying to swim to safety Donald Trump.

News 5 has arrived in Corpus Christi to help our sister station KRIS-TV cover the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Tropical Storm Harvey is finally starting to crawl away from Texas while catastrophic flooding continues there.

Police have plucked more than 3,000 people from flooded neighbourhoods across the city, with the coastguard’s boats and helicopters rescuing another 3,000.

Since making landfall, Harvey has weakened to a tropical storm and retreated back into the Gulf of Mexico, but Texans are far from out of the woods.

He says we may even see sunshine on Wednesday. “I know what you’re going through”. The National Weather Service says the rainfall total could reach 50 inches in some areas by the time the storm moves on.

“It’s sad that we have an active and ongoing natural disaster in Texas, and people are anxious about her shoes”, Stephanie Grisham said, according to CNN reporter Kate Bennett. Rain fell at about half an inch per hour over Harris County – home to Houston – and up to 2 inches per hour to the east.

Engineers have tried to prevent nearby communities from being inundated by releasing some of the water held by the Addicks dam.

That breaks the previous record of 48 inches set in 1978 in Medina, Texas by Tropical Storm Amelia.

Southwestern parts of Louisiana are also preparing for potentially disastrous flooding, and hundreds of people have already been evacuated from chest-deep water after a heavy band of rain inundated Lake Charles on Monday night.

Tuesday marks 12 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast.