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Do not fill this in! ====Landfall area==== [[File:Coast Guard responds after Hurricane Harvey (546085).webm|thumb|Coast Guard video during an overflight from [[Port Aransas]] to [[Port O'Connor]], Texas, Aug. 26, 2017]] Making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, Harvey inflicted tremendous damage across [[Aransas County, Texas|Aransas County]].<ref name="TWC_Landfall"/> Wind gusts were observed up to {{convert|132|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} near [[Port Aransas, Texas|Port Aransas]].<ref name="WPC14">{{cite report|url=http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/winter_storm_summaries/storm19/stormsum_14.html|title=Storm Summary Number 14 for Tropical Storm Harvey Rainfall and Wind|first=Jennifer Elyse|last=Tate|work=[[Weather Prediction Center]]|publisher=United States Government|location=College Park, Maryland|date=August 29, 2017|access-date=August 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829204939/http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/winter_storm_summaries/storm19/stormsum_14.html|archive-date=August 29, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Nearly every structure in Port Aransas was damaged, some severely, while significant damage from storm surge also occurred.<ref name="TWC_Landfall"/> In [[Rockport, Texas|Rockport]], entire blocks were destroyed by the hurricane's violent eyewall winds. The city's courthouse was severely damaged when a [[cargo trailer]] was hurled into it, coming to a stop halfway through the structure. The gymnasium of the [[Rockport-Fulton High School]] lost multiple walls while the school itself suffered considerable damage.<ref name="TWC_Landfall">{{cite news|url=https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-harvey-corpus-christi-impacts|last=Breslin|first=Sean|date=August 26, 2017|title=Hurricane Harvey Damages Buildings in Rockport; At Least 10 Injured|work=[[The Weather Channel]]|access-date=June 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627173749/https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-harvey-corpus-christi-impacts|archive-date=June 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Many homes, apartment buildings, and businesses sustained major structural damage from the intense winds, and several were completely destroyed. Numerous boats were damaged or sunk at a marina in town, airplanes and structures were destroyed at the Aransas County Airport, and a [[Fairfield Inn by Marriott|Fairfield Inn]] in the city was severely damaged as well.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-harvey-corpus-christi-impacts|title=Hurricane Harvey Update: More Than 100 Evacuated from Damaged Rockport Hotel: Tens of Thousands Without Power|first1=Sean|last1=Breslin|first2=Pam|last2=Wright|work=[[The Weather Channel]]|location=Atlanta|date=August 26, 2017|access-date=August 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826011846/https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-harvey-corpus-christi-impacts|archive-date=August 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> About 20 percent of Rockport's population was displaced, and they were still unable to return to their homes a year after the hurricane.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/24/hurricane-harvey-year-later-rockport-cant-find-housing-evacuees/ |last=Walters |first=Edgar |date=August 24, 2018 |title=No place back home: A year after Harvey, Rockport can't house all its displaced residents |work=[[The Texas Tribune]] |access-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430134001/https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/24/hurricane-harvey-year-later-rockport-cant-find-housing-evacuees/ |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The first death associated with Harvey was in Rockport,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Officials-confirm-first-death-caused-by-Hurricane-Harvey-441826153.html |date=August 26, 2017 |title=Officials confirm first death caused by Hurricane Harvey |work=[[KVLY-TV]] |access-date=December 4, 2020}}</ref> caused by a house fire, the city was unable to rescue the victim due to the extreme weather conditions.<ref name="debris" /> Just north of Rockport, many structures were also severely damaged in the nearby town of [[Fulton, Texas|Fulton]]. In the small community of [[Holiday Beach, Texas|Holiday Beach]], catastrophic damage occurred as almost every home in town was severely damaged or destroyed by storm surge and violent winds. By the afternoon of August 26, more than {{convert|20|in|mm|abbr=on}} of rain had fallen in the [[Corpus Christi metropolitan area]].<ref name=Dart/> All of [[Victoria, Texas|Victoria]] was left without water and most had no power.<ref name="TWC_Landfall"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page