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Texas coast braces for first Hurricane since 2005
The Texas coast will continue to brace for its first hurricane strike since September 2008, when Category 2 Hurricane Ike battered Galveston and environs and caused nearly $35 billion (CPI-adjusted dollars) in damage, according to NOAA. In addition, still-strengthening Harvey could become the first major hurricane (Category 3; sustained winds greater than 110 mph) to strike the U.S. since October 2005, when Wilma crossed southern Florida. Due to the expectation that Harvey will slow or stall after making landfall late Friday or early Saturday, storm-total rainfall of 15 to 25 inches (with isolated totals near 35 inches) could cause potentially catastrophic flooding in a broad area of the western Gulf Coast region.
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