Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas over the weekend and left a path a devastating destruction. As the strongest storm to hit the U.S. in more than a decade, the storm ravaged the state as a Category 4 hurricane.
The hurricane made landfall in Texas on Friday and had dumped 18 inches of rain in some areas, first hitting northeast of Corpus Christi in Port O’Connor and Port Aransas.
On Monday, residents of Houston were forced to evacuate their homes due to catastrophic flooding. Gas futures have jumped as much as 7 percent as the storm continues to drop rain on Houston, which is home to oil, gas, pipeline and chemical plants. Emergency responders have reached out to the public to donated their boats to help in high-water rescues.
Residential neighborhoods near the Interstate 10 sit in floodwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)
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Christine Garcia relaxes with her eight-year-old daughter Mia in the Channelview High School gym which has been turned in to an evacuation shelter for victims of flooding following Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Channelview, Texas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Donated items sit in a loading dock are as volunteers works to organize the items donated for Hurricane Harvey victims, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Dallas, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo)
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Felix Tijerina, right, and Andy Guerra, left, try to salvage items from their family home that was destroyed in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)
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Rescue workers and volunteers help residents make their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water following Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Rescue workers and volunteers help residents make their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water following Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Texas Army National Guard members Sergio Esquivel, left, and Ernest Barmore carry 81-year-old Ramona Bennett after she and other residents were rescued from their Pine Forest Village neighborhood due to high water from Hurricane Harvey August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)
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Evacuees are airlifted in a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter after flooding due to Hurricane Harvey inundated neighborhoods in Houston, Texas, August 27, 2017. Picture taken August 27, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard/Petty Officer 3rd Class Johanna Strickland/Handout via Reuters)
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Residents wade through floodwater after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf coast with rain causing widespread flooding, in Houston, Texas, U.S. August 28, 2017. Picture taken August 28, 2017. (Nick Oxford/Reuters)
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People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
High levels of flood submerges a road after Hurricane Harvey hit Conroe, TX, United States on August 28, 2017. (Tharindu Nallaperuma/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Rising flood waters stranded hundreds of residents of Twin Oaks Village in Clodine, where a collection of small boat owners, including some with pool toys, coordinated to bring most to dry ground, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Clodine, Texas. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Houses at the Highland Glen subdivision stand in floodwaters due to Hurricane Harvey in Spring, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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A child is helped off the back of a rescue truck after his family evacuated their home after it was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in Texas over the next couple of days. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Barb Davis, 74. is helped to dry land after being rescued from her flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water, remnants of Hurricane Harvey, on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A man sleeps as people seek shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX on Monday, Aug 28, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Airplanes are twisted in a damaged hangar left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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People rescued from their flooded apartment building are loaded into a truck that will transport them to an evacuation center in Houston, Texas. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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A graveyard is seen as it floods during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey August 27, 2017, in Pearland, Texas. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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Evacuation residents from the Meyerland area walk onto an I-610 overpass for further help during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey August 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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Evacuees from Hurricane Harvey take shelter at the Delco Center in east Austin, Texas on Sunday, August 27, 2017. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images)
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A crucifix still stands after Hurricane Harvey hit Port Aransas, Texas on August 27, 2017. (Mark Rolston/AFP/Getty Images)
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A sunken boat lies submerged in front houses after Hurricane Harvey hit Port Aransas, Texas on August 27, 2017. (Mark Rolston/AFP/Getty Images)
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Heavy damage on the main street after Hurricane Harvey hit Port Aransas, Texas on August 27, 2017. (Mark Rolston/AFP/Getty Images)
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Interstate highway 45 is submerged from the effects of Hurricane Harvey seen during widespread flooding in Houston, Texas, U.S. August 27, 2017. (Richard Carson/Reuters)
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Mario Qua holds Wilson Qua as they evacuate their flooded home after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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A resident floats his pets and belongings on an air mattress along Mercury Drive as he flees flood water at his home in Houston, TX on Sunday, Aug 27, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
A woman is carried after being rescued from a hotel by boat due to heavy flooding by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas on August 27, 2017.
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People walk past a boat storage facility that was damaged by Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
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People are rescued from a hotel by boat after Hurricane Harvey caused heavy flooding in Houston, Texas on August 27, 2017. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
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This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. (Jack Fischer/NASA via AP)
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Evacuees wade down a flooded section of Interstate 610 as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. The remnants of Hurricane Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into Houston Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
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A child makes his way through floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey while checking on neighbors at his apartment complex in Houston, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (LM Otero/AP Photo)
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Sam Speights holds two of his dogs as he checks on the damage to his home in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. Speights tried to stay in his home during the storm but had to move to another shelter after his lost his roof and back wall. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
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