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Sunday, August 27, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Houston opening convention center as shelter
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says emergency personnel have responded to more than 2,000 calls to 911 for rescues in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. He says priority was being given to life-threatening calls.
Turner also says at a news conference that he has ordered the downtown George R. Brown Convention Center opened as a shelter as floodwaters inundated much of the city.
Turner also urges people not to drive, as numerous streets and roadways in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, are flooded Sunday.
The George R. Brown Convention Center has 1.8 million square feet (167,000 square meters) of space.
— AP
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