JJ Watt’s new Hurricane Harvey relief goal: $6 million

With so many people away from their homes and scattered reports of looting, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner instituted an overnight curfew starting Wednesday morning in order to prevent “potential criminal acts”.

“There’s plenty of puddling and stuff already”, he said, “so I just assume that we’re probably going to get a taste of what we had a couple weeks ago”. “And that’s for the first time in several days”, said Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the Harris County Flood Control District.

Outflows from the two reservoirs would eventually reach the Buffalo Bayou, a river which flows through the center of Houston.

State offices in 28 parishes and most Baton Rouge area schools would not open on Wednesday in anticipation of possible severe weather.

His largely upbeat reassurances about a speedy recovery, though, stood in contrast to the more measured assessments coming from emergency management officials.

Fifty eight counties are under Texas disaster declaration.

Almost five days after Hurricane Harvey touched Texas soil, the storm has broken state rainfall records and sparked unprecedented flooding across Southeast Texas and the city of Houston, where residents are desperate for relief.

President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis.

The national Storm Prediction Centre said a few tornadoes were expected to develop Wednesday in north-east Louisiana and across southern and central portions of Mississippi.

Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, said Trump showed “genuine compassion” on the short flight to Austin as they watched video footage of the flooding in Houston. Turner also set a curfew in Houston from midnight Wednesday to 5 a.m. until further notice. He tweeted the move is meant to prevent property crimes at evacuated homes.

Help people affected by Hurricane Harvey by visiting redcross.org, calling 1- 800-RED CROSS or texting the word HARVEY to 90999 to make a $10 donation. “Recent shutdowns boost the percentage of capacity offline to around 25%, and I suspect there could be more shutdowns as refineries deal with running out of crude oil to refine due to the Houston Ship Channel and other infrastructure being out of service”.

“The water is receding here, but we are not sure if it’s going to come back”, Allen said. He described the Greater Houston area, where almost 200,000 Indian-Americans live, as a “ghost town”.

“I want to say this again, because I guess it’s been missed, but you can not evacuate 6.5 million people within two days”, Turner said Tuesday, referring to both the city and its surrounding areas.

NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen said that record is being treated preliminarily as one for the entire continental United States.

Volunteers have come the Houston region to lend a hand and their boats.

The flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey are beginning to drop across much of the Houston area, emergency officials said.

“This is what Texans would do”.

“Last week was a week unlike any other in terms of stress to fuel distribution network. peak month of gasoline demand (August) plus high demand for the eclipse plus the devastation in Gulf Coast and it’s a real challenge on the system”, Lenard said.

The Bowers Civic Center has been sheltering at least 100 people displaced from their homes. “There’s still an bad lot of real estate and a lot of people who are going to feel the impacts of the storm”.