Hurricane Hanna lashed the Texas shoreline with heavy rain and winds as it pummelled the Gulf Coast on Saturday.
The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall twice as a Category 1 storm, the first happening about 24 kilometers north of Port Mansfield and the second landfall nearby in eastern Kennedy County.
Heavy rain is likely to lead to “life-threatening” flash flooding in southern Texas and north-eastern Mexico even as Hurricane Hanna weakens, US officials have warned.
The hurricane made landfall on Saturday but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm.
But the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) says that rains and strong winds “remain a threat”.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott had issued a disaster declaration for 32 counties. A storm surge warning on the Texan coast was later cancelled by the NHC.
Hanna was initially classified as a Category One hurricane, the lowest level on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, before being downgraded.
It made landfall on Padre Island on Saturday, and on Sunday moved into Mexico. With wind gusts of up to 90mph (145km/h), the storm was earlier tearing roofs off homes.
“Any hurricane is an enormous challenge,” Gov Abbott said on Saturday. “This challenge is complicated and made even more severe, seeing that it is sweeping through an area that is the most challenged area in the state for Covid-19.“
AT 22:00 local time on Saturday (03:00 GMT Sunday), maximum sustained winds were near 75mph, the NHC said.
It added that “rapid weakening is expected as Hanna moves farther inland” over Texas and into north-eastern Mexico on Sunday.
Separately, Hurricane Douglas – with maximum winds of up to 90mph – was approaching Hawaii in the Pacific, the NHC said, warning of damaging winds, flooding rainfall and dangerously high surf.
My Administration is closely monitoring Hurricane Douglas off Hawaii & Hurricane Hanna, which has now made landfall in Texas. We continue to coordinate closely with both states — listen to your emergency management officials @Hawaii_EMA & @TDEM to protect your family & property! https://t.co/tFxHLSqcBE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2020
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More violent clashes across the US as cops fire tear gas at demonstrators in Portland and Tempe, Arizona, while hundreds take to streets of Austin to march after an armed BLM protester was shot dead
An anti-racism protest in Tempe, Arizona, turned chaotic on Monday night as police began firing tear gas
Officials said the protesters repeatedly refused orders to clear the road and then started throwing projectiles
In Portland, the so-called ‘Wall of Moms’ activist group took to the streets yet again to demand that federal agents leave the city following a weekend of violent clashes outside the city’s courthouse
In Austin, where a protester was shot dead Saturday, hundreds of people marched to the police headquarters
Police have fired teargas at protesters in Portland and Tempe, Arizona, while hundreds of activists gathered on the streets of Austin as cities across the US saw their 61st consecutive night of unrest.
In Oregon, the ‘Wall of Moms’ activist group took to the streets to demand that federal agents leave the city following a weekend of clashes.
Fires were lit in the streets as around 1,000 people gathered in parks opposite the federal courthouse, where agents are embedded to protect the building, Oregon Live reported.
There were clashes between agents and demonstrators who attacked a protective fence that has been put up around the courthouse, with rubber bullets and tear gas fired into the crowd, as bottles and fireworks were sent back the other way.
The Lebanese Civil War. Please stop this madness go back to your houses relax let election happens we move forward or witness Beirut every day in USA.
lasting from 1975 to 1990 and resulting in an estimated 120,000 fatalities.[5] As of 2012, approximately 76,000 people remain displaced within Lebanon.[6] There was also an exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon as a result of the war.[7]
Before the war, Lebanon was multisectarian, with Sunni Muslims and Christians being the majorities in the coastal cities, Shia Muslims being mainly based in the south and the Beqaa Valley to the east, and with the mountain populations being mostly Druze and Christian. The government of Lebanon had been run under a significant influence of the elites among the Maronite Christians.[8][9] The link between politics and religion had been reinforced under the mandate of the French colonial powers from 1920 to 1943, and the parliamentary structure favored a leading position for its Christian population. However, the country had a large Muslim population and many pan-Arabist and left-wing groups opposed the pro-western government. The establishment of the state of Israel and the displacement of a hundred thousand Palestinian refugees to Lebanon during the 1948 and 1967 exoduses contributed to shifting the demographic balance in favor of the Muslim population. The Cold War had a powerful disintegrative effect on Lebanon, which was closely linked to the polarization that preceded the 1958 political crisis, since Maronites sided with the West while leftist and pan-Arab groups sided with Soviet-aligned Arab countries.[10]
Fighting between Maronite and Palestinian forces (mainly from the Palestine Liberation Organization) began in 1975, then Leftist, pan-Arabist and Muslim Lebanese groups formed an alliance with the Palestinians.[11] During the course of the fighting, alliances shifted rapidly and unpredictably.
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In Tempe, the demonstration began peacefully at about 5pm as roughly 200 people gathered in Tempe Beach Park to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
USA will be soon Beirut , please see Beirut civil war and we all needs learn from mistakes. Maronite Christians and Dorouz and Hezboulah and Christian Falangist
Humans afflictions one by one is arriving from Corona to more lethal viruses that kills you in less than 24 hours. The Hanna super cyclone created and managed and brought to exact locations they want . Remember they want to make North American Highway so exact places of concern are same places hit. Weather wars and HAARP and Pandemic 2 is coming which will be more killer. Civil war in USA and world is already started and we will go to Dictatorships globally.
World WAR 3 NEWS in PROGRESS FAST,
Iran moves a mock 650ft US aircraft carrier into the Strait of Hormuz that it ‘plans to sink’ in navy drills – days after American F-15 buzzed an Iranian airliner
Satellite images show aircraft carrier being towed to the Strait of Hormuz
Suggests Iran is preparing for a similar mock-sinking it conducted in 2015
Comes after a U.S. F-15 fighter jet approached Iranian passenger flight over Syria
ran has moved a mock 650ft US aircraft carrier to the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with the United States.
Satellite photographs released on Monday show the aircraft carrier being towed by a tugboat, likely signalling the Islamic Republic soon plans to use it for live-fire drills.
An image from Maxar Technologies taken Sunday shows an Iranian fast boat speed toward the carrier, sending waves up in its wake, after a tugboat pulled her out into the strait from the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.
I SAY NUKE IRAN NOW ?
this is really a very bad rain and wind storm. Nothing more.