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| Hurricane Harvey: 'Unprecedented' Houston flooding to leave 30,000 people homeless | Hurricane Harvey: 'Unprecedented' Houston flooding to leave 30,000 people homeless |
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| The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey will leave more than 30,000 people in Texas forced into temporary shelters, emergency response administrator Brock Long has said. | The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey will leave more than 30,000 people in Texas forced into temporary shelters, emergency response administrator Brock Long has said. |
| The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) chief said an estimated 450,000 people had been affected directly and would be expected to file as disaster victims. At least two people have died. | |
| In Houston alone, 30 in (76 cm) of rain have fallen in the last 24 hours, with rain and flooding expected to continue almost all week. Houston is the fourth largest American city, with a population of 6.6 million. | |
| Governor Greg Abbott ordered evacuations for all seven coastal counties where the storm made landfall over Corpus Christi and Galveston late on 25 August. | |
| However, despite the massive flooding residents in Houston were told by local authorities to shelter in place only to find overnight they were unable to leave their water-logged homes. | |
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