Tropical Storm Harvey has made a second landfall on Wednesday, near the Texas-Louisiana border.
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Western Louisiana residents braced for more wind and water Wednesday as Tropical Storm Harvey headed their way after dumping record rainfall on Texas.
Harvey made landfall just west of Cameron, Louisiana, Wednesday morning. The center has crossed the coast just west of Cameron with most of the associated deep convection located over extreme southeastern Texas and western Louisiana.
Although the rain has ended in the Houston/Galveston area, the Beaumont/Port Arthur area was particularly hard hit overnight, with about 12.5 inches reported at the Jack Brooks Regional Airport since Tuesday evening.
Harvey has turned north-northeastward and is moving a little faster Wednesday morning. Now that Harvey's center is moving inland, the winds should gradually decrease during the next few days.
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Harvey is likely to weaken to a tropical depression by Wednesday night. This weakening will not eliminate the risk of continued heavy rainfall and flooding along Harvey's path, although the system's faster motion will prevent rainfall totals from being anywhere near what occurred over southeastern Texas.
Ongoing catastrophic and life-threatening flooding will continue across southeastern Texas. The Associated Press reports the death toll has risen to at least 31 people.
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Texas on Tuesday. They toured an emergency operations center and received a hurricane briefing.
They spoke to a crowd in Corpus Christi and told residents that Texas will get the help they need.
"Thank you everybody, I just want to say we love you, you are special, we're here to take care, it's going well, and I want to thank you for coming out. We're going to get you back and operating immediately," the president said.
Volunteers and rescue workers are scrambling to save thousands of victims. More than 13,000 people have been rescued from the Houston area since Harvey hit late last week, dumping record rainfall on Texas.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner implemented a curfew to prevent potential criminal acts like burglaries and looting.
CURFEW UPDATE: I'm modifying the curfew to start at midnight (and still end at 5 am) to allow volunteers and others to do their great work.
— Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) August 30, 2017
Houston police have enough to deal with as they continue rescue efforts.
More rescues performed by our officers #HoustonStrong pic.twitter.com/z0xu5Jp66D
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) August 29, 2017
One of their officers, Sergeant Steve Perez drowned in his flooded patrol car as he was responding to rescue efforts.
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the tragic in the line of duty death of Sergeant Steve Perez. pic.twitter.com/cHJxjnFgII
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) August 29, 2017
Despite the difficult time, people continue to step up to support officers’ life-saving work during the historic flooding. One woman bought a water suit for an officer.
The generosity of our community is amazing; this citizen bought our officer's water suit so he can be safe as he works #HoustonStrong pic.twitter.com/2bMoBc5hDN
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) August 30, 2017
There is a lot of need for supplies and volunteers still.
The City of Houston tweeted they are in desperate need of licensed and certified social works at shelters.
We still desperately need licensed/certified #socialworkers at our shelters. Volunteers are being taken in at Hall A at the GRB.
— City of Houston (@HoustonTX) August 30, 2017
And a second major shelter has opened in Houston, which can hold up to 10,000 people.
Information from the Associated Press, National Hurricane Center and Spectrum News Networks contributed to this report.