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   From: waa@waa.liberals   
      
   After making landfall in the United States as a Category 1 hurricane on   
   the coast of Matagorda, Texas at 4am CDT Monday morning, Beryl has now   
   weakened to a Tropical Storm and is now traversing inland across eastern   
   Texas.   
      
   Tropical storm Beryl was downgraded from a Category 1 hurricane after it   
   started to travel towards Houston throughout the morning, causing hundreds   
   of thousands of Texan customers to lose power within hours of Beryl   
   arriving at the coast.   
      
   Officials have confirmed two people have died in and around Houston, Texas   
   after trees came down on both their houses in separate incidents.   
      
   The National Hurricane Center has warned of heavy rainfall, strong winds   
   and life-threatening storm surge to batter areas of Texas today.   
      
   More than a million people in Texas were placed under a hurricane warning,   
   with Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick declaring 120 counties to be   
   disaster areas ahead of the storm and warned Beryl “will be a deadly   
   storm”.   
      
   School systems, airports and major oil shipping operations have been   
   suspended and will remain closed for the day on Monday.   
      
   Beryl has already left a trail of destruction as a Category 5 hurricane   
   through Mexico and the Caribbean.   
      
   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hurricane-beryl-   
   landfall-texas-houston-live-tracker-map-b2575868.html   
      
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