Eight Years Later: Remembering Hurricane Harvey’s impact on the Texas Coast

Eight years ago, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the middle Texas coast as a powerful and catastrophic Category 4 storm.

On the night of Aug. 25, 2017, Harvey struck near Rockport, Texas, and would go on to become one of the most destructive and costly natural disasters in U.S. history.

Harvey began as a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on August 13, 2017.

Initially disorganized, it gradually developed into Tropical Storm Harvey on August 17. The system then crossed into the eastern Caribbean Sea on August 18, briefly weakening into a tropical disturbance after passing through the Windward Islands.

On August 22, Harvey’s remnants crossed the Yucatán Peninsula. Once over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the system rapidly intensified.

By August 24, it had regain