Texas braces for Beryl as tropical storm enters gulf
Texas was bracing for Tropical Storm Beryl as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico early Saturday, and a hurricane watch was issued for the state’s southern coast, New York Times reports.
Hours earlier, the storm made landfall in Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane. Damaging winds and storm surge battered the Mexican coast, leaving snapped trees and power outages in its wake. Beryl, which then weakened to a tropical storm, was expected to become a hurricane before reaching the Texas coast as soon as late Sunday.
In the past week, the storm flattened islands and killed 12 people in Grenada, Jamaica and Venezuela.
