Tropical Storm Hanna battered the south Texas coast with blistering winds, knocking out power lines and overturning tractor-trailers, leaving a large area already badly hit by COVID-19 bracing for torrential downpours and potential flash floods
Hanna came ashore on Padre Island on Saturday afternoon as a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity and later made a second landfall in Kenedy County, Texas. It swept through a part of the state hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. It had weakened by Sunday to a tropical depression.
Heavy downpours of more than a foot of rain flooded roadways and swelled streams and rivers across south Texas, the National Weather Service said.“You could hear the wind blowing and the rain blowing and you looked outside you could see sheets of water blowing down the street,” said Sharon Pecce, a resident of Port Mansfield, whose roof was ripped off her house on Saturday night.
At one point, more than 283,000 homes and businesses were without electricity. But that figure fell to 203,000 by Sunday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us. Some residents took advantage of the wild weather, with Alejandero Carcano, 16, and Jesse Garewal, 18, both of Galveston, surfing the high swells whipped up by Hanna.
The Texas area struck by Hanna has struggled to contain outbreaks of COVID-19 in recent weeks. Cases along the state’s coast have soared into the tens of thousands.
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