Hanna’s rain remains biggest threat to virus hot spot Texas

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South Texas was braced for flooding on Sunday after Hanna roared ashore as a hurricane, bringing winds that lashed the Gulf Coast with rain and storm surge to a part of the country trying to cope with a spike in coronavirus cases. The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic cyclone season made landfall twice as a Category 1 storm on Saturday afternoon within the space of little over an hour. The first landfall happened at around 5pm local time, about 15 miles (24km) north of Port Mansfield, which is about 130 miles (209km) south of Corpus Christi. The second took place nearby in eastern Kenedy County, where Hanna came ashore with maximum sustained winds of 90mph (145kph). Forecasters downgraded...

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