The Texas coast is bracing for Beryl, which is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane Monday. Thousands of coastal residents have been urged to evacuate.
Beryl was hurtling toward Matagorda Bay on the Gulf Coast of Texas, between Corpus Christi and Galveston, with sustained winds of 65 mph.
Patrick said he was concerned that too few people were leaving coastal areas while they still could. He said traffic monitors aren’t showing many people leaving the areas most at risk.At Matagorda Beach on Sunday evening, a man fished for sea trout and a few families played in the growing surf, where waves crashed dozens of yards farther inland than they do during normal high tides.
Texans often say officials are overly cautious, Patrick said. He had a warning for them: “Let’s pray nothing happens where you live, but something is going to happen where some of you live.”said Sunday that Beryl will bring “a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation” and “damaging hurricane-force winds” to the lower and middle Texas coast, as well as flash and urban flooding because of torrential rains.
President Biden was monitoring the storm, a White House official told CNN. “We are in close contact with our state and local counterparts and FEMA has prepositioned response personnel, search and rescue teams, bottled water, meals, tarps and electric generators in case they are needed,” the official said.Residents who opted to stay boarded up windows and stocked up on food, gas and medicine. Patrick, in charge while Gov.
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