US Weather Agency Warns Texans to Complete Preparations Before Hurricane Hits State

Tropical Storm Beryl is forecast to re-strengthen into a hurricane before it plows into Southern Texas early on Monday morning, while forecasters say that the storm will impact states as far north as Michigan and Ohio later in the week. The system was about 165 miles south-southeast of both Matagora and Corpus Christi, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in an update on Sunday afternoon. “Continued strengthening is expected overnight before Beryl reaches the Texas coast” as a hurricane, the NHC warned earlier Sunday. “Preparations should be rushed to completion in Texas” before it makes landfall, it also warned. Hurricane and tropical storm warnings were in effect for the entire southern Texas coastline until the Louisiana border. A hurricane warning is in effect from Baffin Bay northward to San Luis Pass, while a tropical storm warning was in effect along the Texas coast south of Baffin Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande river as well as the the Texas coast north of San Luis Pass to Sabine Pass, and the northeastern coast of mainland Mexico from Barra el Mezquital to the mouth of the Rio Grande River....