Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Residents of storm-ravaged Rockport, Texas were picking through the wreckage of homes and businesses Saturday. The south Texas town took the brunt of Hurricane Harvey's wrath, damaging residential, business and marina areas. (Aug 26) AP 
 
 A family evacuates their home in Houston on Aug. 27, 2017. Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help Sunday as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey rose high enough to begin filling second-story homes, and authorities urged stranded families to seek refuge on their rooftops. (Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle via AP) 
 
 HOUSTON — Helicopters plucked desperate flood victims from rooftops Sunday while boats and trucks swept hundreds more residents to safety as Tropical Storm Harvey fueled historic rains and devastating flooding across a wide swath of East Texas. 
 
 Late Sunday night,Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said another 1,000 National Guard members will be sent to Houston on Monday, joining 3,000 already activated. 
 
 Flooded highways and streets left cars abandoned as weather alerts went off continuously, warning of possible tornadoes — all under a steady, pelting rain. 
 
 The unrelenting rain was forecast well into the week, and the Texas Gulf Coast braced for days of catastrophic flooding. The National Weather Service said some areas could be slammed with an "unprecedented" 50 inches of rain by week's end as the storm lingers in the region. 
 
 "This event is unprecedented & all impacts are unknown & beyond anything experienced," NWS tweeted. "Follow orders from officials to ensure safety." 
 
 Abbott activated the National Guard troops in addition to hundreds of other state emergency personnel aiding local first responders. He said 600 boats were aiding rescue efforts, and the Coast Guard said at least 16 helicopters were tapped for air rescues, with more coming into the area by Monday. 
 
 Convoys of buses and a mobile hospital unit were on the way to Houston and the Gulf Coast, as were truckloads of food and volunteers, Abbott said. 
 
 “They now know the cavalry is coming,” the governor said, adding: "Our top priority is to protect human life." 
 
 From Louisiana, the so-called "Cajun Navy," a group of volunteers with boats, were mobilizing to help with rescues. And from New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie announced he was sending NJ Task Force 1 — a team comprised mainly of police, fire and emergency personnel — as members of the National Urban Search & Rescue Response System to arrived in Texas on Monday 
 
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 Flooding was overwhelming the Houston metropolitan area. Scenes of families being shuttled to safety played out in scores of neighborhoods. The Coast Guard said it rescued more than 100 people from rooftops and conducted more than 2,000 multi-person rescues, its three-boat teams searching block-by-block for stranded residents. 
 
 "If you are in a flooding situation, stay calm, do not panic," the Coast Guard said in a statement. "Do not go into the attic, rescuers from the air cannot see you." 
 
 The storm had claimed at least two lives, but it was to soon to know the full extent of the death and destruction as power and cellphone outages made communications difficult. 
 
 "The flooding in and around America's 4th most-populous city is going to write world headlines and set records for generations," tweeted meteorologist Roger Edwards of the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. 
 
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 President Trump tweeted support for the agencies battling the disaster and planned to visit the state Tuesday. 
 
 “We are coordinating (visit) logistics with state and local officials," the White House said in a statement. "We continue to keep all of those affected in our thoughts and prayers.” 
 
 Under persistent, pounding rains, some residents in Richmond, 20 miles south of Houston, took refuge in a Red Cross shelter inside a Catholic Church recreation center. 
 
 Austin Herrera, 18, said the water on his family's 10-acre property in nearby Guy, Texas, jumped 1½ feet overnight, as water moccasins slithered under the house. He ushered the horses and other animals to higher ground, then drove the six members of his family to a nearby church who then bused them to the shelter. 
 
 "We've seen flooding before," Herrera said. "But never like this." 
 
 As of Sunday, the Red Cross shelter in Richmond, Texas, had 49 displaced residents. More could soon be on the way, since Richmond and neighboring Rosenberg sit on the banks of the Brazos River, which experienced catastrophic flooding just last year. 
 
 This event could match or surpass that, meteorologists said. 
 
 Some residents here were being bused in from another shelter at the Chinese Community Center in Houston, which had already filled to capacity, said Christine Bradley, the shelter manager. 
 
 "This is a whole new thing," she said. "It's huge." 
 
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 Over the next few days, Harvey also is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 5 to 15 inches farther south toward the lower Texas coast, farther west toward the Texas Hill Country, and farther east through southwest and central Louisiana, the weather service said. 
 
 But Houston was the focal point of the disaster. The National Weather Service said parts of Harris County had been hit with more than 20 inches of rain in 24 hours. Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the county Flood Control District, called the rainfall totals "staggering." 
 
 He tweeted late Sunday night that Buffalo Bayou was more than 7 feet above flood stage: "Catastrophic flooding is in progress." 
 
 Buffalo Bayou at West Belt is 7.28 ft above flood stage. Catastrophic flooding is in progress #houwx#hounews#txwx — Jeff Lindner (@JeffLindner1) August 28, 2017 
 
 This is “worse than the worst-case scenario for Houston,” tweeted WeatherBell meteorologist Ryan Maue. 
 
 This storm will not break our spirit. We are in this together and we will rebuild even greater together after #HurricaneHarvey — Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) August 27, 2017 
 
 Mayor Sylvester Turner said emergency officials had been overwhelmed with about 6,000 rescue calls and more than 56,000 calls to 911; he urged residents not to call unless their situation was life-threatening. He ordered the city's George R. Brown convention center opened as a shelter. 
 
 Turner confirmed one death in Houston, saying a woman drowned trying to flee her car in high water. Another death was reported in a house fire in coastal Aransas County. 
 
 Turner defended his administration's decision not to call for evacuations ahead of the storm, saying it was too difficult to determine which areas of the sprawling city of 2.3 million people were likely to take the worst hit. The entire city has seen at least some flooding, he added. 
 
 “You give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare," he said. 
 
 Officials were urging people to stay off of the roads. "It's so dangerous that people would give themselves the death penalty," said Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who was out with his officers making water rescues in his saturated city Sunday. "Sad, breaks your heart for our city and our state," Acevedo said. "But it's Texas. We'll get through it." 
 
 The floodwaters themselves are a hideous, toxic brew, with reports of alligators and swarming fire ants in the water. 
 
 The storm made landfall Friday night in Aransas County, southwest of Houston, as a furious, Category 4 hurricane with winds exceeding 130 mph. Sheriff Bill Mills said about 30 people were treated for injuries in his county alone. 
 
 Two Aransas County municipalities, Rockport, with a population of 10,000, and Port Aransas, with about 4,000 people, took the brunt of the storm. At least 10 injuries were reported from collapsed roofs in Rockport, which is 25 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and 220 miles southwest of Houston. 
 
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 Nearby Port Aransas was particularly vulnerable perched on a narrow strip of Mustang Island, which sits at the entrance to Corpus Christi Bay. It registered the strongest wind gust of 132 mph from Harvey, according to the National Weather Service. 
 
 The two towns, like dozens over others in the area, reported widespread damage as emergency teams searched for any survivors trapped in low-lying areas or collapsed buildings. 
 
 Meteorologists were awed by the scope of the disaster. 
 
 “This could easily be one of the worst flooding disasters in U.S. history,” tweeted Weather Channel meteorologist Greg Postel, who said he cannot think of an analogous flood event. 
 
 Homer reports for KHOU-TV in Texas; Bacon for USA TODAY in McLean, Va. Contributing: Doyle Rice, Rick Jervis, USA TODAY; Julie Garcia, John C. Moritz, Corpus Christi Caller Times 
 
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 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14. 
 
 Throughout the region between Corpus Christi and Houston, many people feared that toll was only the beginning. Authorities did not know the full scope of damage because weather conditions prevented emergency crews from getting into the hardest-hit places. And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest. 
 
 In the island community of Port Aransas, population 3,800, officials were unable to fully survey the town because of "massive" damage. Police and heavy equipment had only made it into the northernmost street. 
 
 "I can tell you I have a very bad feeling and that's about it," said Mayor Charles Bujan, who had called for a mandatory evacuation but did not know how many heeded the order. 
 
 Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm's path. The mayor said his community took a blow "right on the nose" that left "widespread devastation," including homes, businesses and schools that were heavily damaged. Some structures were destroyed. 
 
 Rockport's roads were a mess of toppled power poles. A trailer blocked much of one major intersection. Wood framing from ripped-apart houses was strewn along Route 35 on the town's southern end. 
 
 Harvey's relentless wind tore the metal sides off the high school gym and twisted the steel door frame of its auditorium. 
 
 "We're still in the very infancy stage of getting this recovery started," said Aransas County spokesman Larry Sinclair. 
 
 Rockport Mayor Charles "C.J." Wax told The Weather Channel that the city's emergency response system had been hampered by the loss of cellphone service and other forms of communication. 
 
 A day earlier, Rockport Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Rios offered ominous advice, telling people who chose not to evacuate to mark their arms with Sharpie pens, implying that the marks would make it easier for rescuers to identify them. 
 
 One person was killed in Aransas County when in a fire at home during the storm, county Judge C.H. "Burt" Mills Jr. said. A second person died in flooding in Harris County, where Houston is located. 
 
 Gary Norman, a spokesman for the Houston emergency operations center, said late Saturday that the person was a woman appeared to have gotten out of her vehicle in high water, though authorities had not confirmed a cause of death. She was found by neighbors about 30 yards (27 meters) away from her vehicle, and Norman said she was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor who was in the area. 
 
 Mills also said as many as 14 people suffered minor injuries in his county, including slips and falls, scrapes and a broken leg. 
 
 About 300,000 customers were without power statewide. Gov. Greg Abbott said it would probably be several days before electricity is restored. 
 
 Meanwhile, the storm was barely moving. Rainfall totals varied across the region, with Corpus Christi and Galveston receiving around 3 inches (8 centimeters), Houston 7 (18 centimeters) and Aransas 10 (25 centimeters). Tiny Austwell got 15 inches (38 centimeters). 
 
 In Houston, authorities were pleading with people not to leave their homes as a flood emergency was declared. 
 
 "The streets are treacherous," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said. 
 
 Elsewhere in the storm's immediate aftermath, the Coast Guard had rescued 20 people from boats and barges in distress, said Capt. Tony Hahn, commander of the Corpus Christi sector. 
 
 The Corpus Christi port was closed with extensive damage. Because the city is the third-largest petrochemical port in the nation, the agency will be on the lookout for spills, Hahn said. 
 
 The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. 
 
 Harvey weakened to a tropical storm by midday Saturday. 
 
 By 4 a.m. Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said Harvey continued to cause "catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas." Harvey's maximum sustained winds were about 45 mph (72.42 kph), but the storm was practically stationary as it dumped torrential rain over an area that included Houston. 
 
 The hurricane posed the first major emergency management test of President Donald Trump's administration. 
 
 Trump met with his Cabinet and other senior administration officials to discuss the federal response to the damage and flooding, the White House said Saturday in a statement. 
 
 The president held a video conference from Camp David in which he instructed departments and agencies to "stay fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives," the statement said. 
 
 Trump, who on Friday signed a federal disaster declaration for coastal counties, also reminded department heads that the full impact of the storm will not be apparent for days. On Twitter, he commended the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for his handling of the disaster. 
 
 In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall. 
 
 Daybreak revealed downed lamp posts and tree limbs and roof tiles torn off buildings. Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, the rain was so intense that drivers stopped under bridges because they could not see in front of them. 
 
 Rain fell on Houston at nearly 3 inches (8 centimeters) an hour, leaving some streets and underpasses underwater. The many drainage channels known as bayous that carry excess water to the Gulf were flowing freely and rising. 
 
 "Flooding is a minor issue so far," Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the chief administrator of the county that includes Houston, said. "Most of the watersheds are well within banks, but we're not out of this." 
 
 Francisco Sanchez, with the Harris County Emergency Management Office, said the storm would be around for a while. 
 
 "Someone is going to get those very high rainfall totals," he said. "Hopefully it's not us, but we're in that possibility area." 
 
 South of the city, about 4,500 inmates were evacuated from three state prisons in Brazoria County because the nearby Brazos River was rising. 
 
 The turbulent weather extended into southern Louisiana, where motorists were cautioned about the potential for high water, road hazards, high winds and tornadoes. 
 
 Harvey came ashore as the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961's Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record. 
 
 The storm's approach sent tens of thousands of people fleeing inland. 
 
 Just hours before landfall, the governor and Houston leaders issued conflicting statements on evacuation. 
 
 The governor urged more people to flee, but Houston officials recommended no widespread evacuations, citing greater danger in having people on roads that could flood and the fact that the hurricane was not taking direct aim at the city. 
 
 The last Category 4 storm to hit the U.S. was Hurricane Charley in August 2004 in Florida. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Michael Graczyk, Juan Lozano and Nomaan Merchant in Houston; Tammy Webber in Chicago; David Phillip in Dickinson, Texas; and Jamie Stengle, David Warren and Claudia Lauer and in Dallas contributed to this report. ||||| Thousands of people likely remain stranded, and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression, continues to batter the Gulf Coast with torrential rains, flooding and strong winds, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said. 
 
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 Harvey made its third landfall, just west of Cameron, Louisiana, Wednesday at 4 a.m. CDT, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, according to the National Weather Service. As of 11 p.m. EDT, the slow-moving storm had picked up some speed, moving northeast at 9 mph, with its center was about 30 miles northeast of Alexandria, Louisiana. 
 
 The storm was starting to fall apart overnight, with rain scattered in nature and falling over Mississippi and Arkansas. Residents in western Tennessee, around Memphis, should expect heavy rains on Thursday morning and possible flash flooding as up to 8 inches of rain are possible locally. 
 
 Before that, it battered the Beaumont-Port Arthur area in southeastern Texas, dumping more than 2 feet of rain in some parts. By Wednesday evening, the storm had weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression. 
 
 "We have people who are on the second floor of their homes. They're riding it out, and they're waiting for the waters to go down," Emmett, who is also the director of Texas' Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said in an interview Wednesday with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America." 
 
 "We've got probably [30,000] to 40,000 homes that have been destroyed," Emmett added. 
 
 Power outages in the Houston area are down to 75,000, but 32,000 of those outages are inaccessible to crews, officials said Wednesday. 
 
 The brunt of the storm's impact has begun to shift to western and northern Louisiana. Now, for Harris County, "the biggest challenge is going to get people back in their homes," Emmett said. "We've got to get those people back into their normal lives as soon as possible." 
 
 The Houston Airport System announced that it has lifted restrictions on commercial operations. On Saturday, Southwest Airlines will ramp up the number of flights, according to the airport system. 
 
 A curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. will take effect in Houston for the second night in a row, Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a press conference. No arrests were made during Tuesday night's curfew, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department said at the press conference. 
 
 The Houston Fire Department has received about 15,000 calls for assistance, a spokesperson said Wednesday evening. The fire department will begin recovery operations in certain areas and conduct door-to-door checks of accessible homes that got more than 3 feet of water, the spokesperson said. 
 
 Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said 911 calls for water rescues were down to about 40 an hour as of this morning. Still, the Coast Guard is taking more than 1,000 calls per hour from people needing rescue. 
 
 The Navy is sending two ships -- the USS Kearsarge and the USS Oak Hill -- to the Gulf of Mexico to held with storm relief efforts, it announced Wednesday. 
 
 Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that he will travel to Texas Thursday. "@POTUS asked me to travel to Texas tomorrow with his message: 'We will be with you every single day to restore, recover, and rebuild,'" the vice president tweeted. 
 
 .@POTUS asked me to travel to Texas tomorrow with his message: "We will be with you every single day to restore, recover, and rebuild." pic.twitter.com/jQ0A9BGnPK — Vice President Pence (@VP) August 31, 2017 
 
 Harris County Flood Control District meteorologist Jeff Lidner told reporters this morning that the lowest homes near the Addicks and Barker reservoirs have 3 to 6 feet of water. 
 
 Harvey, which first came ashore last Friday in Texas as a category 4 hurricane, dumped more than 51 inches of rain on some parts of the state, according to preliminary reports from the National Weather Service. The storm led to at least 31 deaths over the past five days, according to The Associated Press. Harris County officials, where Houston is located, confirmed six new deaths late Wednesday. 
 
 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott -- who spoke by phone Wednesday with the president while the commander in chief was on board Air Force One, returning from Missouri -- said most of the deaths were due to people driving vehicles into high water. 
 
 .@POTUS @realDonaldTrump speaks w/ Texas @GovAbbott on Air Force One - returning to Washington, D.C. from Missouri w/COS General John Kelly. pic.twitter.com/oTwxwM4VMU — Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) August 30, 2017 
 
 An undetermined number of people are missing. The Coast Guard is leading a search for two volunteer rescuers missing after their boat crashed and capsized on Cypress Creek near the North Freeway early Wednesday. Authorities found a third rescuer clinging to a tree, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. 
 
 The Harris County Sheriff's Office urged people awaiting rescue to "hang a towel or sheet prominently" for rescuers to see because addresses are difficult to spot. 
 
 Harvey is expected to weaken and continue moving to the north and east across the Lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley through Thursday. But the National Weather Service said Harvey still has the potential to cause "life-threatening flooding." 
 
 "Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues in southeastern Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana," the service said in an advisory this morning. "Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses, as well as other drainage areas and low-lying spots." 
 
 The situation became serious in eastern Texas Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for parts of southeastern Texas, including the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, which received more than 26 inches of rain in some areas on Tuesday alone. 
 
 Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman urged residents to get to higher ground in a Facebook post early Wednesday. 
 
 "Our whole city is underwater right now but we are coming!" Freeman wrote in one post. "Please get to higher ground if you can, but please try stay out of attics." 
 
 The largest oil refinery in the United States is shutting down because of the devastating floods. Its owner, Motiva Enterprises, announced in a statement early Wednesday that it began a "controlled shutdown of the Port Arthur refinery in response to increasing local flood conditions." 
 
 The refinery won't reopen until floodwaters recede, the company said. 
 
 Officials were forced to evacuate the shelter at the Bob Bower Civic Center in Port Arthur this morning after it began to fill with water. One witness, who was forced to relocate, said some areas of the center had almost 4 feet of water inside. 
 
 Displaced residents were taken to a secondary evacuation site at the Carl Parker Center, according to ABC Texas affiliate KBMT-TV. 
 
 The disastrous rainfall Wednesday led the National Weather Service to further extend a flash-flood emergency for the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur until 4:30 p.m. CT in anticipation of additional rain that morning. 
 
 The worst is not over for Texas, Abbott warned Wednesday. He said 24,000 National Guard troops, including all of Texas' force, have been deployed in the state and will be crucial in the weeks and months to come to help restore order. 
 
 The National Guard has made 8,500 rescues, evacuated 26,000 people and done 1,400 shelter-in-place welfare checks in Texas so far. Meanwhile, there are 32,000 people in shelters throughout the state, Abbott said. 
 
 Five days after Harvey first made landfall, FEMA said it's still in "life-saving, life-sustaining" mode, with recovering survivors being the top priority. FEMA Administrator Brock Long said at a news conference Wednesday that there are more than 12,000 emergency staffers on the ground in Texas and Louisiana, spread across 50 counties. The agency is operating more than 230 shelters in Texas, housing more than 30,000 people. 
 
 The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston is no longer accepting evacuees, Turner said. About 8,000 people are currently at the convention center, down from 10,000 people on Tuesday night. The city had opened up the Toyota Center as an additional shelter to ease the overcrowding at the convention center. 
 
 Long said the FEMA travel trailers used after Hurricane Katrina are a "last resort" and the agency will first try to move displaced residents into local hotels before helping them clear out their inundated houses so they can return to them. FEMA has already placed more than 1,800 flood survivors in hotels, he said. 
 
 The Air Force said it was providing aircraft assistance in response to Harvey, including two HC-130J Combat King IIs, three HH-60G Pave Hawks, air crews and other support personnel to College Station, Texas. Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs are carrying more than 30 tons of relief supplies to Louisiana's Alexandria International Airport. 
 
 Help is also coming from overseas. Gov. Abbott said on Wednesday that Texas is accepting resources from Mexico, including boats, food and other supplies. And Israel's embassy in Washington tweeted, "A team from the Israeli Rescue Coalition will arrive in #Houston on Thursday to help victims of #HurricaneHarvey." 
 
 A team from the Israeli Rescue Coalition will arrive in #Houston on Thursday to help victims of #HurricaneHarveyhttps://t.co/Wd7Kl3fs7B pic.twitter.com/rbBL0NNHWX — Embassy of Israel (@IsraelinUSA) August 30, 2017 
 
 ABC News' Max Golembo, Serena Marshall, Whitney Lloyd, Luis Martinez and Zunaira Zaki contributed to this report. 
 
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– The immediate effects of Hurricane Harvey on Texas are starting to show. The AP reports nearly 300,000 people lost power as some areas of the state received nearly 20 inches of rain. Some communities near the coast where Harvey made landfall Friday night are reporting damaged or destroyed homes, businesses, and schools and loss of cell service. Coast Guard helicopters were sent to rescue the crews of three tugboats that were in distress near Port Aransas on Saturday morning. And multiple cruise ships with thousands of passengers are currently stranded in the Gulf, unable to return to Galveston, according to Reuters. Two Carnival cruise ships were rerouted to New Orleans for additional supplies. Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a Category 1 on Saturday morning, and CBS News reports it was expected to weaken to a tropical storm by the afternoon. But that doesn't mean the danger has passed. Some areas of Texas are expected to receive up to 30 inches of rain by Wednesday, and "catastrophic" flooding is still a possibility in the coming days. It's also possible Harvey moves back out to sea and gains strength before hitting Texas a second time.