Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 tropical storm with winds of 130 miles per hour has killed at least ten people and has caused many more injured. It strengthened into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico fueled by a combination of factors including the warm water in the gulf and lack of wind in the upper atmosphere. Hurricane Harvey is stretching along the state's Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Houston and inland to Austin and San Antonio. The "500 year flood" created more than thirty inches of rain, but the flooding is only expected to intensify as rains continue. It is predicted in some areas to reach fifty inches of rainfall. Roads are turning into raging rivers and houses are flooding to the brim. Since Houston did not order evacuations before the storm, residents are trapped in flooding homes.
Hurricane Harvey is important because thousands of people are loosing their homes. It is also changing the landscape of the coast and displacing wildlife, alligators, snakes, and other bayou wildlife.
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