Valerie Brown walks through a flooded area after leaving the apartment that she road out Hurricane Harvey in on August 26, 2017 in Rockport, Texas.
August 25, 2017
Harvey downgraded but sparking ‘extremely serious’ flooding
CORPUS CHRISTIE, United States (AFP) — Monster storm Harvey has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm but is lingering over Texas, US meteorologists said Saturday, warning that it had unleashed “extremely serious flooding.”
Harvey was not expected to move much for several days, meaning the state’s Gulf Coast was going to see massive amounts of rain, the National Hurricane Center said. Some communities could get up to 40 inches (more than 100 centimetres).
“Rainfall of this magnitude will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flooding,” the NHC said.
