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Hurricane Hanna Batters COVID-hit Texas Coast

Reuters

   Hurricane Hanna battered the south Texas coast with blistering winds
   and crashing waves into the early hours of Sunday, leaving a large area
   already badly hit by COVID-19 bracing for torrential downpours and
   potential flash floods.

   Hanna came ashore on Padre Island on Saturday afternoon as a Category 1
   hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, and later made a
   second landfall in Eastern Kennedy County, Texas.

   Weakening as it headed west over land, Hanna was a tropical storm by
   Sunday morning, with its center about 40 miles (65 km) from Mcallen,
   Texas and about 65 miles (105 km) from Monterrey, Mexico, the National
   Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

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