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HURRICANE HARVEY
Victoria hospitals 5-DAY FORECAST FOR VICTORIA
TODAY TONIGHT SUNDAY
High
MONDAY
High
TUESDAY
High
WEDNESDAY
High

prepare for storm High

80
Low

Some patients will
shelter in place
ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT
As Hurricane Harvey’s
arrival time gets closer, Vic-
toria hospitals are taking
action to protect their pa-
tients and staff.
“As Hurricane Harvey
moves toward our area, we
have taken steps to contin-
ue operations through the
storm and to keep our pa-
tients and staff safe,” ac-
cording to a news release
from DeTar Healthcare
System.
DeTar Hospital Navarro
and DeTar Hospital North
are closed and not accept-
ing referrals from outlying
communities.
While emergency depart-
ments at DeTar Healthcare
System hospitals will con-
tinue to accept patients ex-
periencing medical emer-
gencies, neither DeTar hos-
pital will be serving as a
shelter.
As soon as a mandatory
evacuation was issued for
Victoria, Citizen Medical
Center officials consulted
with the Southwest Texas
Regional Advisory Council,
local emergency manage-
ment officials and other
area hospitals.
75
80
72
Low
77
70
Low
80
72
Low
82
72
Low
Damaging winds, Strong winds and heavy, Strong wind, rain; major Some wind, rain; major Some wind and rain; Sunshine, a t-storm
At the time, hospitals
were already caring for
flooding rain
Precip chance: 95%
flooding rain
Precip chance: 85%
flooding
Precip chance: 95%
floodng
Precip chance: 70%
flooding
Precip chance: 70%
possible; breezy
Precip chance: 30%
more than 250 patients
combined, according to a LOCAL ALMANAC NATIONAL WEATHER MARINE STATISTICS
news release from Citizens Statistics for Victoria through 4 p.m. yesterday. Offshore (Port Arthur to Port O'Connor)
Medical Center. Temperatures Inner Waters Wind southeast 30-40 knots
Citizens Medical Center High/low ...................................................... 78/74 today. Seas 8-12 feet. Rain and wind. Water
temperature: 88.
was able to transfer a few of Normal high/low ........................................ 95/73
Record high ....................................... 106 in 1924 Outer Waters Wind southeast 15-25 knots
its critical care patients, Record low ........................................... 66 in 1966 today. Seas 10-14 feet. Wind and rain. Water
but the other patients were temperature: 88.
not evacuated because of Precipitation (Port O'Connor to Port Brownsville)
Yesterday ending 4 p.m. ............................. 1.54" Inner Waters Wind southwest 40-70 knots today.
the time and resources. Month to date .............................................. 5.73" Seas 10-14 feet. Stormy. Water temperature: 86.
The hospital’s staff initiat- Normal month to date ................................. 2.11" Outer Waters Wind south 20-30 knots today.
ed its Hospital Incident Year to date ................................................. 29.19" Seas 14-18 feet. Stormy. Water temperature: 87.
Command Center and is Normal year to date .................................. 26.13"
communicating with the Of-
fice of Emergency Manage- SUN & MOON Port O’Connor Tides
High Ht.(ft) Low Ht.(ft)
ment to coordinate efforts. Sunrise today ........................................ 7:03 a.m. Today 8:02 a.m. 0.7 ft. 2:13 a.m. 0.5 ft.
The hospital developed a Sunset today ......................................... 7:56 p.m. 4:16 p.m.
Moonrise today .................................... 11:39 a.m. Sun. 7:27 a.m. 0.7 ft. 4:57 p.m. 0.3 ft.
shelter in place for their pa- Moonset today ...................................... 11:19 p.m.
tients. They have prepared Sunrise Sunday ..................................... 7:03 a.m.
for Hurricane Harvey with Sunset Sunday ....................................... 7:55 p.m. ALLERGEN COUNT
extra fuel for their emer- Moonrise Sunday ................................ 12:33 p.m. Shown are noon
positions of weather
gency generators, addition- Moonset Sunday .................................. 11:57 p.m. Tree ...................................... LOW
and precipitation.
al water, food, medicine and First Full Last New Temperature bands are Grass ........................ MODERATE
supplies.
highs for the day. Ragweed ................... MODERATE
Mold .................................... LOW
Victoria hospitals have
physicians, staff and ad- Aug 29 Sep 6 Sep 13 Sep 20
SOURCE: ACCUWEATHER.COM
ministrative leaders who
will be stationed at the hos- LAKE LEVELS (through 7 a.m. Friday) RIVER STAGES (through 7 a.m. Friday)
pitals throughout the Normal Actual Release Flood 24-hr Flood 24-hr
storm. Level Level (cfs) Stage Fri. Change Stage Fri. Change
Canyon ...... 909.0 ......... 906.72 .............. N.A. Guadalupe Navidad
DeTar Healthcare System Texana .......... 44.0 .............. 41.31 ................... 0 Gonzales ..................... 31.0 ...... 11.99 ..... +0.02 Sublime ....................... 27.0 ....... 4.61 ..... +0.02
anticipates reopening the Coleto ........... 98.5 ............ 95.36 ................... 0 Cuero .......................... 24.0 ........ 7.91 ....... none Speaks ....................... 24.0 ....... 3.41 ...... +0.01
hospitals after the storm Travis .......... 681.0 .......... 672.35 ................... 0 New Braunfels ........... 13.0 ...... 9.36 ...... +0.01 Morales ..................... 29.0 ...... 7.00 ...... -0.02
passes through Victoria. Medina .... 1064.2 ........ 1054.57 ............. —— Victoria ....................... 21.0 ....... 6.17 ...... +0.19 Lavaca
Georgetown 791.0 ........... 781.16 ................... 0 Near Bloomington ... 20.0 ....... 9.81 ....... +0.12 Edna ............................ 21.0 ...... 4.80 ...... +0.01
Victoria hospitals will Austin ........ 492.8 .......... 491.94 .............. 1159 San Antonio Colorado
keep their patients, families Marble Falls 737.0 .......... 736.34 .............. 884 Falls City ..................... 12.0 ......... 1.15 ..... +0.20 Wharton .................... 39.0 ....... 7.72 ..... +0.42
and staff updated regularly LBJ .............. 825.4 .......... 824.56 .............. 926 Goliad ........................ 25.0 ....... 3.62 ....... none Bay City ..................... 44.0 ...... 7.09 ....... +4.91
about any related develop- Somerville . 238.0 ........... 237.36 .................... 1 Loop 410 ..................... 12.0 ....... 3.62 ..... +0.08 La Grange .................. 26.0 ...... 4.62 ..... +0.07
ments.
VICTORIA RAIN LOG
Mon. 2017 2016 Avg. Rec. TEXAS WEATHER FORECAST
Jan. 3.76 3.15 2.52 11.87 (1934) YESTERDAY TODAY SUNDAY YESTERDAY TODAY SUNDAY YESTERDAY TODAY SUNDAY
Feb. 4.84 1.79 2.08 9.08 (1992) City Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Mar. 4.98 4.32 2.77 11.61 (1997) Abilene 75 71 0.20 80/65/pc 80/62/s Del Rio 95 76 89/74/pc 84/71/s Marfa 75 60 0.20 80/59/t 79/56/t

VC remains closed through Monday Apr.

May
June
2.94
3.06
3.51
4.59
6.37
3.18
2.82 11.70 (1997)
5.19 14.66 (1993)
4.46 13.50 (2004)
Alice
Amarillo
81
80
75
63
0.14
0.16
84/73/r 83/70/r
81/60/pc 85/61/pc
El Paso
Galveston
87
85
69
76 2.35
88/67/t 90/67/t
84/78/r 83/76/r
McAllen
Midland
93
89
78
71
0.05
0.12
98/80/pc 95/76/pc
85/65/t 87/64/pc
Austin 90 75 T 78/71/r 77/69/r Houston 79 76 0.27 79/74/r 79/72/r Orange 80 76 0.70 82/74/r 79/71/r
July 0.37 0.66 4.18 20.34 (2007)
ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT main closed through Mon- Aug. 5.73 5.52 2.85 10.88 (1914)
Beaumont 80 73 1.13 80/74/r 78/71/r Kerrville 87 72 0.01 77/69/r 75/67/r Port Arthur 80 73 1.31 82/75/r 78/72/r
Brownsville 86 75 T 95/78/pc 95/75/pc Kingsville 79 75 0.81 86/76/r 83/75/r Presidio 90 69 T 90/68/pc 90/65/s
Victoria College will re- day because of the mandato- Sept. ---- 2.55 4.16 19.05 (1978)
Bryan/C.S. 86 76 78/72/r 78/71/r Laredo 92 78 0.03 92/75/pc 82/72/pc San Angelo 83 71 0.18 82/67/pc 81/65/s
ry evacuations in the area. Oct. ---- 0.06 4.64 17.25 (1960)
Corpus Christi 82 75 1.57 83/74/r 83/72/r Longview 83 73 0.03 83/72/c 80/69/c San Antonio 88 76 0.02 78/73/r 76/70/r
Nov. ---- 4.05 3.24 16.14 (2004)
Dec. ---- 3.01 2.31 8.67 (1923) Dallas/FW 87 76 0.01 85/71/pc 84/70/pc Lubbock 85 68 80/62/t 83/62/t Waco 91 75 79/70/c 78/68/t
Year 29.19 39.25 41.22 73.70 (2004) Dalhart 80 64 0.05 84/61/t 88/60/t Lufkin 85 74 79/70/r 75/68/r Wichita Falls 81 71 0.39 86/66/pc 86/66/s

1.24M Texans expected NATIONAL CITIES

City
YESTERDAY TODAY
Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
SUNDAY
City
YESTERDAY TODAY
Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
SUNDAY
City
YESTERDAY TODAY
Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
SUNDAY
City
YESTERDAY TODAY
Hi Lo Prec Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
SUNDAY

to be without power Albuquerque 84 62

Anchorage
Atlanta
Baltimore
85 73
88/65/t 88/65/pc
56 51 0.09 60/49/r 60/49/pc
87/71/pc 84/69/pc
79 62 0.03 78/59/pc 79/62/pc
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
88
80
73
61
58
63 0.01
52
45
92/59/pc
84/66/t
76/56/s
66/46/sh
90/58/pc
82/59/pc
77/62/c
59/48/sh
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
Nashville
80
87
71
84
68
74 1.09
57 0.20
61
87/68/s
88/75/t
68/61/r
87/62/s
91/72/s
88/77/sh
74/58/sh
88/68/s
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Raleigh
St. Louis
104
72
84
80
85
51
68
62
110/87/s
75/58/s
86/65/pc
84/64/s
110/86/t
76/60/pc
84/65/pc
87/66/t
ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT ing. Customers should ex- Baton Rouge 89 73 88/74/sh 82/70/r Honolulu 84 73 0.02 88/73/pc 88/75/s New Orleans 91 81 0.05 90/77/sh 85/75/r San Diego 71 67 77/68/pc 81/70/s
Birmingham 89 62 87/72/pc 85/71/pc Indianapolis 76 57 79/59/pc 83/64/pc New York 78 63 76/62/s 76/62/pc San Francisco 68 56 76/59/s 77/60/pc
Forecast models show pect extended outages.
Boston 76 63 0.01 74/59/s 72/58/pc Kansas City 80 62 84/66/pc 82/61/t Oklahoma City 73 65 1.18 86/66/t 87/67/t Seattle 73 54 80/59/s 85/60/pc
Hurricane Harvey could VEC serves mostly rural Chicago 74 52 77/62/pc 80/63/t Las Vegas 99 77 105/84/s 108/85/s Omaha 83 64 0.65 85/66/t 81/60/pc Tampa 90 78 87/77/t 90/77/r
leave at least 1.24 million area and the coast. Cincinnati 76 60 79/59/s 83/64/s Little Rock 84 62 83/68/pc 85/69/pc Philadelphia 79 66 79/62/s 80/64/pc Wash., D.C. 80 65 0.05 81/66/s 80/66/pc
Texans without power as The information was Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather.com ©2017 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, prcp-precipitation, T-trace.

the storm approaches land- available through the Spa-

fall.
“A significant number of
utility customers along the
Middle Texas coast and
South Central Texas, in-
cluding Corpus Christi, San
Antonio and Victoria, will
experience outages,” said
Brent McRoberts, of Texas
A&M University’s Depart-
ment of Geography in the
College of Geosciences.
As of 3:30 p.m. Friday, Vic-
toria had experienced
some power outages, with
the largest one near Coun-
try Club Drive and Busi-
ness U.S. 77 where 41 cus-
tomers were without pow-
er.
Victoria Electric Coop has
2,300 members without
power mostly due to flood-
tially Generalized Hurri- million people affected in
cane Outage Prediction those homes.
Model. McRoberts said hurri-
The research team’s cane-related outages are OLIVIA VANNI/
model uses National Hurri- typically caused by downed OVANNI@VICAD.COM
cane Center data, such as power lines, which result Maya Glick,
eye location, wind speed from strong winds or trees 44, and Chris
and duration, along with getting entangled with the
environmental variables lines.
Guthrie, 63, of
Austin, finish
for each location to com- Before Hurricane Sandy
pute a statistical outage caused devastating dam- loading up
forecast. age in October 2012, the dogs for
“Power outages are often model accurately predicted evacuation
highly correlated with wind the number of power out- from Goliad
speed,” McRoberts said. ages it would cause in the County’s
The model’s latest predic- U.S. animal shelter
tion shows about 420,000 The team has continued for Austin Pets
customers could lose pow- to refine and improve the Alive.
er, which would total 1.25 model since.

School districts Renaissance Decorating Contest

update closures To celebrate the festivities and to promote education of years gone
BY GABRIELLA CANALES
GCANALES@VICAD.COM
by, the Victoria Advocate and Texas Renaissance Festival are hosting a
Area school districts have door decorating contest for students. The classes that have the winning
extended closures through
Monday.
doors in three categories Elementary, Junior High and High School will
Here are the districts who win tickets for the class and teacher to attend School Days at the
updated information on
classes Friday: festival Nov. 7 and 8. Students and teachers are asked to decorate
St. Joseph High School
will be closed Monday.
their doors in the Renaissance theme and submit photos of the doors
Edna school district will to VictoriaAdvocate.com/doordecoratingcontest by 4 p.m. Oct. 16.
not have school Monday.
Industrial school district
will not have school Mon-
day.
Shiner school district will
not have school Monday.
Refugio school district will
not start classes Monday.
Refugio County is under
mandatory evacuation. The doors will be judged Oct. 17.
Woodsboro school district Contest entries must include the
will not have school Mon-
day.
name of the school and what city
Austwell-Tivoli will not it is in, grade level of the class,
have classes Monday. teacher’s name and a phone
number for the teacher.
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4
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50lbs *GOOD THROUGH 9/2/17
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