Louisiana bracing for Tropical Storm Harvey after marking Hurricane Katrina anniversary

About 9,000 evacuees were staying at Houston’s George R Brown Convention Centre and Mayor Turner said his office had asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assets to allow the city to shelter another 10,000 people. “It’s awesome how much capacity human beings have to help and to love”.

Vehicles drive along a flooded road beside the Barker Reservoir after the Army Corp of Engineers started to release water into the Clodine district as Hurricane Harvey caused heavy flooding in Houston, Texas on August 29, 2017.

“Isolated storm totals may reach 50 inches (127 centimetres) over the upper Texas coast, including the Houston/Galveston metropolitan area”, NOAA warned.

The system is expected to move inland again and continue northeast as a tropical depression.

Nicole Quinn grew up in Houston and considers the city her home.

Using its large social media networks and other outreach, it solicited supply donations and called for residents in surrounding areas to volunteer their homes and time. “We want to be looked at in five years, in ten years from now as this is the way to do it”, he said.

Flood-ravaged Houston got a bit of good news Tuesday evening: The rain finally stopped. “Things are going to get better”. Hurricane Harvey has shut down completely or partially at least 14 oil refineries and gas prices could rise as much as 20 cents nationally and as much as 35 cents in parts of Texas and Louisiana, according to the Washington Post Wednesday.

“This is what Texans would do”. “We won’t say congratulations”.

“Many rescues are being done down here by pickup trucks and by dump trucks”, said Schoeneck. “It is certainly still possible rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey may exceed the all-time United States record but no official rain gauge has reported a value in excess of 52 inches”, the weather service said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster fund now contains more than $3 billion, but FEMA on Monday said the response to Harvey is “quickly drawing down” disaster balances.