By Agence France-Presse Several US cities began ordering evacuations Thursday as major storm Harvey was upgraded to hurricane status on its path towards hundreds of miles of coastline in Texas and Louisiana — an area that processes some 7 million barrels of oil a day. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that Harvey was “rapidly intensifying” and creating a potential for “life-threatening and devastating” floods. The storm’s center was due to make landfall sometime early Saturday, with preceding strong winds arriving as early as 8 a.m. (1300 GMT) Friday. Harvey’s maximum sustained winds Thursday were about 85 miles (140 km) per hour. The NHC said the category one hurricane could hit land as a much more powerful category three, with winds of 130 miles (209 kilometers) per hour — which would make it the strongest to hit the US mainland in 12 years. It was also menacing one-third of the US refining capacity, forcing several energy companies to take precaution and evacuate personnel from oil and gas platforms in the heart of the US “Refinery Row.” The storm was expected to dump as much as 35 inches of rain in some parts of Texas. Dangerous storm surges were also… Read full this story
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