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Hurricane Hanna Makes Landfall, Rakes Texas Coast With High Wind

(Bloomberg) — Hanna, 2020’s first Atlantic hurricane, made landfall on Padre Island Saturday evening, bringing “life-threatening” storm surges, flooding rains and tree-toppling winds to south Texas. The storm came ashore with 90-mile-per-hour (145 kmph) winds, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 6 p.m. EDT. Hanna is moving west-south-west at about 8 miles per hour. A Category 1 storm, the lowest on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, much of Hanna’s damage is likely… Source link

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