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| Harvey Live Updates: Trump Heads to a Rain-Battered Texas | Harvey Live Updates: Trump Heads to a Rain-Battered Texas |
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| With heavy rain still falling, rivers still rising, rescues still underway, and unknown thousands of people forced from their homes by record-breaking flooding, southeast Texas woke Tuesday to a long, painful road to recovery. | With heavy rain still falling, rivers still rising, rescues still underway, and unknown thousands of people forced from their homes by record-breaking flooding, southeast Texas woke Tuesday to a long, painful road to recovery. |
| Tropical Storm Harvey has Houston and much of the Gulf Coast region waterlogged and impassable, in what Gov. Greg Abbott called “one of the largest disasters America has ever faced.” With roads underwater or washed out, and basic services like electricity and water knocked out, it will be weeks before some people can return home, and many of them still do not know if they will have homes to return to. Read more about the storm here. | Tropical Storm Harvey has Houston and much of the Gulf Coast region waterlogged and impassable, in what Gov. Greg Abbott called “one of the largest disasters America has ever faced.” With roads underwater or washed out, and basic services like electricity and water knocked out, it will be weeks before some people can return home, and many of them still do not know if they will have homes to return to. Read more about the storm here. |
| Here’s the latest: | Here’s the latest: |
| • Several more inches of rain will fall Tuesday in the Houston-Galveston area, the upper Texas coast and southwest Louisiana, the National Weather Service predicted. More than 30 inches have inundated parts of the Houston area since Thursday, and totals there could reach 50 inches. | • Several more inches of rain will fall Tuesday in the Houston-Galveston area, the upper Texas coast and southwest Louisiana, the National Weather Service predicted. More than 30 inches have inundated parts of the Houston area since Thursday, and totals there could reach 50 inches. |
| • President Trump will visit Texas, arriving in Corpus Christi before traveling to Austin, the state capital. | • President Trump will visit Texas, arriving in Corpus Christi before traveling to Austin, the state capital. |
| • After moving offshore on Monday, the center of Harvey remains south of Houston, over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which means it could gain strength. The Weather Service warned of a storm surge along the coast, with “a possibility of life- threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland.” | • After moving offshore on Monday, the center of Harvey remains south of Houston, over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which means it could gain strength. The Weather Service warned of a storm surge along the coast, with “a possibility of life- threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland.” |
| • Local officials have reported 10 deaths possibly related to the storm so far, six of them in Harris County, which includes Houston. | • Local officials have reported 10 deaths possibly related to the storm so far, six of them in Harris County, which includes Houston. |
| • With several rivers in the region already well above their previous flood records, the continued rain and the controlled release of water from swollen reservoirs mean that flooding will not decrease significantly for days, and some streams will rise still higher Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Weather Service. | • With several rivers in the region already well above their previous flood records, the continued rain and the controlled release of water from swollen reservoirs mean that flooding will not decrease significantly for days, and some streams will rise still higher Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Weather Service. |
| • Times journalists are chronicling the storm and its aftermath: Here is an updating collection of the most powerful photographs, and a guide to our coverage. Alan Blinder and Sheri Fink looked at hospitals inundated by patients and water. And Jack Healy visited a San Antonio evacuation center where people were desperate for news from home. | |
| • Follow the Times correspondents reporting on the story on Twitter: Manny Fernandez, Alan Blinder, Julie Turkewitz, Jack Healy, Dave Philipps, Annie Correal, Rick Rojas, Monica Davey, Richard Fausset, Campbell Robertson, John Schwartz, Richard Pérez-Peña and Audra Burch. | |
| • Are you in an affected area? If you are safe, and are able to, please share your photos and videos with us. And here is how to help. | • Are you in an affected area? If you are safe, and are able to, please share your photos and videos with us. And here is how to help. |
| Mr. Trump will arrive in Corpus Christi for a briefing on relief efforts, and then head to Austin for a tour of an emergency operations center and a briefing with state leaders. During a news conference on Monday, Mr. Trump also pledged the federal government’s full support to residents of Texas and Louisiana who are being battered by Harvey. | Mr. Trump will arrive in Corpus Christi for a briefing on relief efforts, and then head to Austin for a tour of an emergency operations center and a briefing with state leaders. During a news conference on Monday, Mr. Trump also pledged the federal government’s full support to residents of Texas and Louisiana who are being battered by Harvey. |
| Promising quick delivery of a multibillion-dollar aid package to the storm’s victims, the president said, “We are 100 percent with you.” He promised “rapid action” on securing emergency funding to address the damage, saying he planned to move quickly — and he expected Congress to do so, as well. | Promising quick delivery of a multibillion-dollar aid package to the storm’s victims, the president said, “We are 100 percent with you.” He promised “rapid action” on securing emergency funding to address the damage, saying he planned to move quickly — and he expected Congress to do so, as well. |
| On Monday night, thousands of people had gathered on green cots under a constellation of fluorescent lights. | On Monday night, thousands of people had gathered on green cots under a constellation of fluorescent lights. |
| The place smelled like sweat. Flood-soaked residents shivered under blankets. On one wall, a mountain of donated clothing nearly touched the ceiling, and a snaking line of people with pets included a woman with a cage holding bunnies, chickens and at least one chihuahua. Toddlers screamed. Evacuees recounted the day’s horrors. | The place smelled like sweat. Flood-soaked residents shivered under blankets. On one wall, a mountain of donated clothing nearly touched the ceiling, and a snaking line of people with pets included a woman with a cage holding bunnies, chickens and at least one chihuahua. Toddlers screamed. Evacuees recounted the day’s horrors. |
| Amid the chaos, Red Cross workers circled like doting chaperones, carrying cots on their heads, doling out plastic baggies of candy and making sure everyone had the new sweatpants that fit them best. Strangers gathered around phone-charging stations. A mass of volunteers convened in the lobby, ready to assist. | Amid the chaos, Red Cross workers circled like doting chaperones, carrying cots on their heads, doling out plastic baggies of candy and making sure everyone had the new sweatpants that fit them best. Strangers gathered around phone-charging stations. A mass of volunteers convened in the lobby, ready to assist. |
| And by the bathroom stood Estella Aguilar, 87 and 4-foot-6, wearing a red cashmere sweater and carrying a handbag. She’d arrived alone from her home in the city’s Second Ward after learning that Buffalo Bayou threatened to flood her out. “I can’t swim,” she said, “never learned.” | And by the bathroom stood Estella Aguilar, 87 and 4-foot-6, wearing a red cashmere sweater and carrying a handbag. She’d arrived alone from her home in the city’s Second Ward after learning that Buffalo Bayou threatened to flood her out. “I can’t swim,” she said, “never learned.” |
| Ms. Aguilar surveyed the scene. “Everything is special when you’re in this predicament,” she said, rubbing her heart and watching the volunteers. “I love it. You see people helping other people.” | Ms. Aguilar surveyed the scene. “Everything is special when you’re in this predicament,” she said, rubbing her heart and watching the volunteers. “I love it. You see people helping other people.” |