Article by: Kimberly Amadeo
Title of the article: What Made Harvey So Devastating
Website name: “The Balance” & “National Weather Service”
Date article was published: (updated) December 14th, 2017
Web address: http://www.weather.gov/crp/hurricane_harvey
In 2017 there was a major disaster that happened! Hurricane Harvey was a category 4 storm that hit Texas on August 25, 2017. It caused $180 billion in damage. That is more than any other natural disaster in U.S. history. On August 23, Harvey was a tropical depression, but after just eight overnight hours it was forming a hurricane eye wall. On Friday it rapidly ballooned from a Category 1 hurricane to Category 4. Texas Governor Greg Abbott will need more than $125 billion in federal relief. “This hurricane was throughout the nation, it affected 13 million people from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky” says Kimberly Amadeo, that tells us that this hurricane affected many people. At its peak on September 1, 2017, one third of Houston was underwater! Two feet of rain fell in the first 24 hours. Flooding forced 39,000 people out of their homes and into shelters. Hurricane Harvey cause many damages in 2017.