Hurricane Harvey Research Paper

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Hurricane Harvey made landfall on a friday night. Harvey was moving at 130 mph as a category

4 hurricane. It landed just northeast of Corpus Christi leaving more than 211,000 people without

Power. The hurricane made a second landfall on the northeastern shore of Copano Bay, but as a

category 3 at 125 mph winds. The main debate was either to stay or to evacuate. Gov. Greg

Abbott want people to evacuate because he thought the hurricane would be much more

disastrous that previous hurricanes, and would leave residents in their home with no supplies for

too long. Mayor Sylvester Turner didn't want people to leave because he knew that the mass rush

of everyone leaving would be too much, just like is was in 2005 when Hurricane Rita

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