Hurricane Harvey settled over southeast Texas on Saturday morning, “devastating torrential rain” and lashing the state’s Gulf Coast with damaging winds over hundreds of miles of coastline that braced for what forecasters predicted would be life-threatening storm surges.
“This is going to be a very major disaster,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday, hours before the storm hit between Port Aransas, just outside Corpus Christi, and Port O’Connor, to the north. Utilities reported widespread power outages on Saturday, some of which emergency officials said could last for days