TX Sees Widespread Flooding As Storm Makes Landfall

The New York Times reports:

More than two million people were under a tropical storm warning along the Texas Gulf Coast in the early hours of Thursday as Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, neared the coast of Mexico, bringing intense rain and storm surges.

The expansive storm system brought widespread coastal flooding in southern Texas on Wednesday, well before the storm was expected to make landfall. In Texas, tides surged beneath elevated houses in some coastal cities, including Surfside Beach, about 40 miles south of Galveston, starting on Wednesday morning.

The National Hurricane Center warned that Alberto was a large storm, with tropical-force winds extending about 415 miles north of its center in the Gulf of Mexico as it moved west toward northeastern Mexico.

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