TOWSON, Maryland, Friday, August 25, 2017 - A hurricane with an unprecedented pattern of winds - winds that will keep the storm hovering over the same areas of the Texas Coast for days on end - is threatening the Lone Star State with cataclysmic damage, great loss of life, large numbers of injuries, and unprecedented destruction of human dwelling places.
It is entirely possible that the force and destruction associated with Hurricane Harvey will be equal to or greater than what came with Hurricane Katrina. President Trump has activated FEMA and ordered it to fully deploy all of its available resources.
The dangers from the storm are almost too great to properly document. Look for tremendous destruction of living space. Look for loss of oil production and agricultural destruction that will affect not only America, but nations around the world.
Weather experts say that the wind patterns that will arise and set the stage for tremendous destruction are not unusual, but when this happens at different times, the storms are far out to sea. The unusual aspect of this wind pattern is that it is happening directly on the coast. The winds will block the dangerous storm from moving on. Instead, the storm will move only slightly and then return to the same areas that have already been hard hit.
As a result, the height of predicted storm surges are almost unbelievably high - 12 feet and more - and rainfall totals are also expected to be beyond anything that has been experienced before.
The last human to see rainfall totals like the ones expected from Hurricane Harvey was Noah and his family. But unlike Noah, there is no ark available to Texans.
Forecasters say that rainfall will be measured in feet, not inches. Three feet of rain is predicted. Add that to the storm surge, the very very flat land on the Texas Coast, and the fact that this storm will last up to five days, and you have a recipe for unbelievable disaster.
All around Texas citizens are being evacuated. Fox News just reported from the Coast at Galveston that the rain was falling sideways because of the high winds, The Fox Reporter also said that the sea is churning at increasing amounts and the surge is, well, surging. And the actual storm is still off shore.
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