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Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, [nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area ...
In September 2017, the Insurance Council of Texas estimated the total insured losses from Hurricane Harvey at $19 billion. This figure represents $11 billion in flood losses insured by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), $3 billion in "insured windstorm and other storm-related property losses"; and about $4.75 billion in insured flood ...
Tropical storm Harvey has dumped over 2 feet of rain on Houston, Texas, and 2 more feet are expected. Tracking Harvey: Before-and-after images show the catastrophic flooding in Houston Skip to ...
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was a devastating and extremely active Atlantic hurricane season that became the costliest on record, with a damage total of at least $294.92 billion (USD). [ nb 1 ] The season featured 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes. [ nb 2 ] Most of the season's damage was due to hurricanes Harvey ...
Hurricane Harvey unleashed record levels of flooding in Texas, which now pose a major public health threat to the Texans forced to live in and around them. These are the biggest health risks ...
August 26, 2017 at 8:29 AM. HOUSTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Cruise ships carrying thousands of passengers were stranded in the Gulf on Friday as Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, came ashore in ...
With Harvey moving due west at 18 mph (29 km/h) in an environment of moderate easterly vertical wind shear, the intensity forecast remained challenging; statistical and hurricane models called for Harvey to near or reach hurricane intensity, while the global models, most notably the ECMWF and the GFS, showed Harvey degenerating to a tropical ...
From start to finish, the 2017 season unleashed several record-breaking storms, and the season as a whole tops the charts as the Harvey, Irma, then Maria: How the 2017 hurricane season became one ...