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Across the region, shelters were also opened in hotels, schools and gyms.Van De Putte emphasized that people should not delay seeking help because of the virus. Mexico’s northeasternmost states, coastal Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon just to its west, also took precautions ahead of the storm’s arrival. Everybody is good and strong and sticks together.”First responders in Corpus Christi proactively placed barricades near intersections to have them ready to go if streets began to flood, Mayor Joe McComb said. "More than 150,000 customers lost power Sunday throughout South Texas, including Corpus Christi, Harlingen and Brownsville, utility officials said.Corpus Christi is in Nueces County, where 60 babies tested positive for COVID-19 from July 1 to July 16.

Downgraded to a tropical depression, Hanna passed over the U.S.-Mexico border with winds near 50 mph, the Border communities whose health care systems were already strained by COVID-19 cases — with some patients being airlifted to larger cities — found themselves under siege from the first hurricane of the Dr. Ivan Melendez, the health authority in Hidalgo County, Texas, was treating a patient overnight at a hospital when he and a nurse noticed water streaming down a wall and pooling on the floor.

Greg Abbott said Saturday that some sheltering would take place in hotel rooms so people could be separated. A man was stranded in his boat after the docks at the marina where his boat was secured were destroyed as Hurricane Hanna made landfall on Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Hanna has unloaded more than 15 inches of rain in parts of South Texas, resulting in serious flash flooding, and totals may exceed 18 inches in … "Yes, coronavirus provides risk, but so does floodwater, so does not having electricity, so does not having required medications," he said.

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"You'll know if they're in despair. The 67-year-old has mostly stayed at home because of health issues related to chronic lung disease.

Associated Press in Corpus Christi, Texas.

May 14 2020 07:00 PM EDT weather.com As much as 10 inches of rain fell on parts of Southeast Texas Thursday, flooding …
Firefighters abandoned a mission to rescue him for safety reasons.

Eric Gay / AP The past week has also been the county’s deadliest of the pandemic.Coastal states scrambled this spring to adjust emergency hurricane plans to account for the virus, and Hanna loomed as the first big test.South Texas officials’ plans for any possible rescues, shelters and monitoring of the storm will have the pandemic in mind and incorporate social distancing guidelines and mask wearing.
Meanwhile, the civil protection department was sending rescue boats and other equipment to northern Nuevo Leon because heavy rains were expected.David León, the national director of the civil protection department, told Milenio TV on Saturday that as many as 800 shelters could be activated in the parts of Mexico that could be affected by Hanna. Sherry Boehme, who lives in a condo along the beach in Corpus Christi, said the storm’s approach had increased the anxiety she has felt during the pandemic. “It’s almost like a double whammy to us,” Boehme said Saturday by phone. Tornadoes were also possible overnight Saturday for parts of the lower to middle Texas coastal plain, forecasters said.

The National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning that Hanna's maximum sustained winds had increased and that it was expected to make landfall Saturday afternoon or early evening. Eric Gay / AP Hanna had come ashore with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (145 kph).