After hitting Texas, storm makes landfall in Louisiana
Houston's mayor declared a nighttime curfew to prevent looting and opportunistic crimes
Local rivers swelled to a major flood stage, county spokeswoman Sharon Trower said
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Compared to other tropical cyclones, the rain from Harvey has been very hard
Its full economic impact is still unclear
Tropical cyclones also have many different characteristics that might change in unpredictable ways
FEMA maps classify flood zones into three categories: high-risk, moderate-low risk and undetermined
Two Indian students are in a critical condition after they nearly drowned in Lake Bryan in the US state of Texas, which is battling "catastrophic" flooding and torrential rains after Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc, claiming at least five lives. The Indians, studying at the Texas A&M University, are in a critical condition. They were rescued from the lake, where they had gone swimming, by a police officer on Saturday. According to the Bryan police, an officer patrolling the lake was flagged down by a person who said two people swimming in the lake were in distress. The person who alerted the officer was with the two students, both in their 20s. He had managed to rescue one of them, while the police officer rescued the other one and treated both of them with CPR until medical help arrived, the police said. The students were identified as -- Shalini, and Nikhil Bhatia. They were taken to the CHI St. Joseph Hospital, where their condition is stated to be critical. It was not ...
(Reuters) - The Dow and the S&P were unchanged in late-morning trading on Monday with losses in insurance and oil stocks offset by gains in shares of health and home improvement retail chains as investors assessed the impact of Tropical Storm Harvey.
The hurricane left a trail of destruction as it swept through storm-ravaged Texas
European stocks open lower, hurt by strong euro; Asian markets subdued
The messages show that all of our lives are going to be different for a while
The storm caused chest-deep flooding on some streets in Houston as rivers
Harvey was the strongest storm to hit the US since 2004
The storm entered city as a Category 4 hurricane which was later downgraded to Category 1
The storm is striking a region that has cluster of refineries that process 5 mn barrels of oil a day
South Texas city is in midst of an investment boom bringing billions of dollars in pipeline industry
US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation declaring a disaster in Texas
Harvey would be the first major hurricane to hit Texas city in nine years, according to forecasters