Two dead, thousands rescued as Texas hit with widespread flooding
초강력 허리케인 '하비' 美텍사스 강타…2명 사망 Serious flooding has hit parts of Texas in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey, inundating roads, damaging homes and leaving entire communities with no electricity. Harvey rammed into southeastern Texas on Friday night, local time, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds well in excess of 200 kilometers an hour. It has since lost a lot of its power,… but it is packing record-breaking amounts of rain. Our Lee Ji-won tells us more. Hurricane Harvey, which has so far killed two people, has lost a lot of its wind speed and was downgraded to a tropical storm late on Saturday. But the heavy rain brought with it has resulted in what the National Weather Service is describing as "unprecedented flooding." With parts of Houston seeing over 60 centimeters of rain in 24 hours on Sunday morning, the service tweeted on Sunday that the full impact is unknown and the flood is beyond anything experienced. But forecasting that isolated storms could drop a record-breaking 130 centimeters of rain on parts of Texas over the next few days, it added that "rainfall of this magnitude will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flooding." Amid continuous downpour, rescue operations continued day and night. Houston 911 got over 56-thousand calls, 7 times more phone calls than an average day. 3-thousand national and state guard service members, 500 vehicles and 14 aircraft have also been deployed to the area. The Red Cross is serving about 130-thousand meals a day, and large shelters have been opened to accommodate the thousands of people displaced from their homes. The White House announced that President Trump will be visiting Texas on Tuesday,... and the president showed his concerns over the disaster, tweeting that he would travel to Texas "as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption". But with the slow-moving storm expected to continue pouring 40 to 60 centimeters of rain over the Texas coast through Thursday,... the natural disaster is likely to take a greater toll on the region. Lee Ji-won, Arirang News. Visit ‘Arirang News’ Official Pages Facebook(NEWS): / newsarirang Homepage: http://www.arirang.com Facebook: / arirangtv Twitter: / arirangworld Instagram: / arirangworld
