Four before making landfall Early Saturday Morning and moving inland near Corpus Christi weakening to a cat two however this system is stalling and in addition the rain is a big problem. Rain is measured in feet. One to two feet up to 30 inches in parts of the region. This is almost a years worth of rain and the first to hit since wilma in 2005 we had four major hurricanes including katrina. Well have more on this on the full accuweather forecast. The governor of texas has declared a preemptive emergency in three counties from eastern texas to mississippi. Bracing for high wind and water. Regardless of the storm track well have coastal flooding. Water, food and batteries are in short supply in many stores up and down the coast. Parts of Corpus Christi, texas is under evacuation orders and the oil industry is watching this closely. A third of americas Oil Refineries are there in texas. A meeting is held in texas due to racist graffiti on a school. Gray hall is live in langhorne to fill
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Red Cross, facing a pandemic-related deficit in blood product reserves that has caused a pause in elective surgeries and other medical procedures, has joined the national organization in launching an aggressive blood donation campaign. Summer is always a challenging time for us in terms of blood supply, and it s even more so this year as people are beginning travel again, schools are opening and people are vacationing, said American Red Cross Southeastern Pennsylvania Region CEO Guy Triano. In the beginning of the pandemic, we were collecting blood every single day and able to keep up with demand, because all elective surgeries have been postponed or cancelled, and we were able to keep up with it and focus on convalescent plasma to help people with COVID. Now that we are out of the pandemic and elective surgeries are restarting, we are now behind by six to 12 months.