Hurricane Harvey downgraded; 3 dead in storm
VICTORIA, Texas _A least three people have died since Hurricane Harvey came ashore in south Texas Friday night as a powerful Category 4 storm, drenching low-lying areas, tearing roofs off buildings and leaving more than 300,000 homes and businesses without power.
Roy Laird, assistant fire chief with the Rockport Volunteer Fire Department, said three people were dead in Aransas County. Emergency responders continued to search the debris of collapsed buildings, overturned trailers, broken power poles and uprooted trees.
The danger was not over. Even as Harvey weakened to a tropical storm with 70 mph winds, weather officials warned residents across Texas to expect severe flooding, life-threatening storm surges and tornadoes.
"This is just the beginning," said Jeff Evans, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Houston-Galveston office. "We could see catastrophic flooding for
