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Hurricane Harvey’s high winds make landfall in Texas
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Hurricane Harvey: Texas battered by high winds and rain

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Media captionParts of the central Texas coast have been battered by hurricane winds

Hurricane Harvey has slammed into Texas with initial winds of up to 130mph (215km/h) battering coastal areas.

The biggest storm to hit the US mainland in 12 years is moving slowly, with 16.43in (42cm) of rain reported in one area.

Catastrophic flooding is expected, though Harvey's winds were downgraded from category four to category one.

Some residents are feared trapped in collapsed buildings and tens of thousands of homes are without power.

President Donald Trump has freed up federal aid for the worst-affected areas.

Updates from Texas

With Texas Governor Greg Abbott warning of record flooding in multiple regions, Harvey made a double landfall: north-east of the city of Corpus Christi initially, then just north of Rockport a few hours later.

Emergency services in Rockport say a school, a hotel, a housing complex for the elderly and other buildings suffered structural damage.

  • In pictures: Harvey batters Texas

This storm is terrifying

By BBC's James Cook, Corpus Christi

As we approached this coastal city across a series of causeways and bridges, darkness was falling and the flooding was already beginning, with frothing waves eating at the road.

At one point our car was blown sideways across several lanes by the force of the wind, and every few minutes a bolt of lightning would illuminate the sky with an eerie green flash.

By the time the eye of the storm was making landfall just 30 miles up the coast we were hunkered down inside a hotel, listening to the noise of screeching wind punctuated by the occasional crash.

I watched from a doorway at the side of the hotel as the wall of a large metal building under construction came smashing to the ground.

Thick palm trees have also been brought down and by the glow of street lamps and the flashes of lightning, you can see that the air is thick with driving spray.

This storm is powerful, it is dangerous and it is terrifying.

When Harvey struck close to Corpus Christi, around 22:00 local time on Friday (03:00 GMT Saturday), it had winds of up to 130mph.

Trees came down in the city and power supplies were cut, but thousands of residents had heeded warnings and boarded up their homes before fleeing.

When the storm struck again near Rockport, wind speeds had fallen slightly to 125mph.

"Right now we're still hunkered down and can't go anywhere," Steve Sims, Rockport's volunteer fire chief, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

"We've heard rumours of 1,000 different things, we can't confirm anything because we haven't seen anything. We know we've got a lot of problems, but we don't know what yet."

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Image caption Power company trucks are on standby to deal with outages

Rockport Mayor Patrick Rios said people were trapped in a housing centre for elderly people, where the roof had collapsed and rescue teams were unable to gain access, according to CBS.

He had a stark warning for anyone who refused to leave town: "We're suggesting if people are going to stay here, mark their arm with a Sharpie pen with their name and Social Security number."

At 05:00 local time, the National Hurricane Center announced in a bulletin that winds had fallen to 90mph, thereby making the storm a category one.

Boarded up

Speaking from Corpus Christi, city resident Michael Hunter told the BBC what he could see: "Our house has been boarded up, so the only windows I can see out of would be the front.

"It's very, very high winds, not as much water as we expected, but there's quite a bit more debris in the roads."

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Image caption Meteorologists have warned Harvey could continue to dump rain until the middle of next week

Long queues of traffic have been heading out of the storm's path.

Governor Abbot said it was obvious Texas was confronting a "very major disaster", and more than 1,000 National Guardsmen were to help with the disaster relief operation.

Harvey is the first major storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is forecast to meander across south-east Texas until Wednesday.

The NHC has stressed the danger of life-threatening floods as rising water moves inland from the coastline.

Oil-rich Houston, the fourth biggest city in the US, could face up to 20in of rain over the coming days.

Mr Trump is likely to visit Texas early next week, the White House said.

The storm is the strongest to hit the US since October 2005, when Hurricane Wilma struck the coast of Florida.

Wilma left 87 people dead and was part of a record-breaking hurricane season that included Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and killed nearly 2,000 people in August of that year.

The last category four storm to hit the US was Charley in August 2004.

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Harvey has severely hampered Gulf of Mexico oil production and air travel.

About 45% of US oil refining takes place on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and Corpus Christi is an important port for the industry.

Crude oil production has slowed by about 20% to prepare for the storm, and fears Harvey could lead to a shortfall in fuel have helped drive up prices.

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As disruption spread:

  • The British band Coldplay cancelled a Friday night concert in Houston
  • At least 20,000 passengers on three cruise ships were unable to disembark in Galveston, Texas
  • Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi flew at least 10 babies from its neonatal intensive care unit to hospitals further inland, due to fear of power failures

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