Texas officials Saturday were urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl.
State and local officials have urged coastal residents to be prepared for possible storm surge flooding, heavy rain and high winds. HOUSTON — Texas officials Saturday were urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl as the storm is expected to regain hurricane strength in the
The storm will bring a dangerous storm surge — flooding portions of the Texas coast — hurricane-force winds to a small area and tropical storm conditions with heavy rains to much of the rest of the Texas coast, he said. On Saturday, Beryl was about 460 miles southeast of Corpus Christi and had top sustained winds of 60 mph , according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving west-northwest at 12 mph .
Mitch Thames, a spokesman for Matagorda County, said Saturday that officials issued a voluntary evacuation request for the coastal areas of the county about 100 miles southwest of Houston to inform the large number of visitors in the area for the holiday weekend. “We’re taking the storm very serious and we’re asking the community to take the storm very serious as well,” Corpus Christi Fire Chief Brandon Wade said during a Friday evening news conference., St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados this week. Three people have been reported dead in Grenada, three in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela and two in Jamaica, officials said.
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