Hurricane Harvey: The Wettest Tropical Cyclone in US History

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In the United Sates of America, that disastrous hurricane Harvey affects areas such as Belize, Louisiana, Nicaragua, Honduras, Yucatán Peninsula, Southern United States, Windward Islands, Eastern United States, Windward Islands, Suriname, Guyana, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Yucatán Peninsula, especially Texas, Louisiana). Hurricane Harvey was first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in e2005 and it brought huge disasters. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a category 4 hurricane on the evening of August 25, severely damaging several places near the coast. It weakened into a tropical storm but stalled, soaking parts of the Houston area in four days with an excess of 50in of rain – about what the city might expect in an average year.The houses, properties, all the things that they valued were all affected by the hurricane Harvey. Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States. The resulting floods broke hundreds of thousands of homes, displaced more than 30,000 people, and prompted more than …show more content…

It also affect there economic because it losses are preliminarily estimated at between $70 to $200 billion with a large portion of the losses sustained by uninsured homeowners. The residents were warned of "catastrophic and life- threatening flooding" to come, after Hurricane Harvey made landfall late on Friday night with 130mph winds battering buildings, knocking down trees and electricity cables, and leaving up to 300,000 without power. After the hurricane Harvey there was like an after shock, it pours a lots and heavy rain and cause flood and it hit many homes and

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