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Hurricane Jerry thunders into Galveston with flooding and outages
Storm Jerry strengthened from tropical storm to hurricane and struck Galveston Island, bringing five to eight foot seas and severe coastal flooding. The city faced power outages, damaged windows, overturned cars, and a police curfew as 50 percent of beachfront shops boarded up amid evacuation calls and sandbag distribution.
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Galveston Island
Neil Frank
National Hurricane Center
Coral Gables
Fla
Houston
Jerry Jarrell
Hurricane Center
Texas
Natonal Weather Service
Jerry
Lufkin
Jarrell
Orange
New Orleans
Galveston
Doug Matthews
Jan Coggeshall
Allison
Chantal
Alicia
Shen
Earth