The outer bands of Beryl began lashing communities along the Texas shoreline on Sunday, bringing rain and intensifying winds.
Beryl began lashing Texas with rain and intensifying winds Sunday as coastal residents boarded up windows, left beach towns under evacuation orders, and prepared for the powerful storm that has already cut a deadly path through parts of Mexico and the Caribbean., it threatened to potentially regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall early Monday.
In Port Lavaca, Jimmy May fastened plywood over the windows of his electrical supply company and said he wasn’t concerned about the possible storm surge. He recalled that his business had escaped flooding in a previous hurricane that brought a 20-foot storm surge. Farther down the coast in Freeport, Mark Richardson, a 64-year-old retiree, said homeowners were busy “trying to tie everything down” and worried that Beryl had people unsure about where along the Texas coast it would make landfall. He spent Sunday morning on the beach and said ocean swells were quickly rising. in the Atlantic, Beryl caused at least 11 deaths as it passed through the Caribbean on its way to Texas.
Potential storm surges between 4 and 7 feet above ground level were forecast around Matagorda. The warnings extended to the same coastal areas where came ashore in 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane, far more powerful than Beryl’s expected intensity by the time the storm reaches landfall. The White House said Sunday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had sent emergency responders, search-and-rescue teams, bottled water, and other resources along the coast.
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