(Bloomberg) -- Harvey, which has already shut energy platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, scattered tankers and disrupted pipeline operations, strengthened into a hurricane on a path that’ll have it slamming into Texas’s coast Friday.
Harvey’s top winds reached 80 miles (129 kilometers) per hour as it bears down on the Texas coast about 340 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, according to an update from the National Hurricane Center. It is on track to become a Category 3 storm, the first major hurricane to hit the U.S. since Wilma in 2005.
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Widespread & potentially catastrophic flooding
“The primary impacts will be from widespread and potentially catastrophic flooding, with total rainfall amounts over the next week exceeding a foot in a large area from Corpus Christi to the Louisiana coast and then up to 100 miles inland from there,” said Todd Crawford, chief meteorologist at The Weather Company in Andover, Massachusetts. “Many locations in those areas may exceed two feet. Clearly Houston is at risk for historic rainfall amounts over the next week.”
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