Rockport Mayor Charles J. Wax confirmed that one person was killed in a house fire when Hurricane Harvey landed on the shores of Texas last night, Fox News reported.
The identity of the victim has not been released.
Hurricane Harvey is the most powerful storm to hit Texas in more than 50 years. It is now threatening catastrophic flooding as it lumbers inland and dumps torrential rains, authorities said on Saturday, Aug. 26.
Harvey hit Texas, the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry, late Friday as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 miles per hour, making it the strongest storm to strike Texas since 1961.
Hurricane Harvey off the coast of Texas from aboard the International Space Station in this Aug. 25, 2017, NASA handout photo. NASA/Handout via Reuters
