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Harvey makes landfall in Louisiana

by Olivia Beavers - 08/30/17 9:48 AM ET

Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall again Wednesday in southwest Louisiana, after days of pummeling Texas with relentless rain.

Harvey hit the area around the Louisiana-Texas border, where it’s expected to bring sustained winds near 45 mph along with several more inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said.

More than a dozen people were killed and thousands more have been displaced after Harvey hit Texas’ Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Friday, bringing record amounts of rain.

{mosads}A weakened version of the storm is now returning to the Gulf of Mexico, which the National Hurricane Center expects to become a tropical depression by Wednesday night.

Fierce flooding will likely continue to wreak havoc in the Houston area as well as southwestern Louisiana for the rest of the week, despite an end to heavy rains in the area, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm #Harvey made its 3rd landfall just west of Cameron Louisiana at 4 am CDT with 45 mph sustained winds https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb pic.twitter.com/sTU7rbRf9d

— NHC Atlantic Ops (@NHC_Atlantic) August 30, 2017

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center warned Wednesday about the risk of tornadoes that could develop in northeast Louisiana as well as parts of Mississippi and Alabama.

President Trump plans to return to Texas on Saturday to visit the other parts of the state that are still reeling in the wake of Hurricane Harvey after visiting Corpus Christi on Tuesday.

Trump claimed during a meeting with Texas officials that the damage and destruction brought by Harvey will be the most “expensive” natural disaster in the country’s history.

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