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PICTURES: The devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey on Texas

The category 4 hurricane has left a trail of destruction in its wake since making landfall last Friday.

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HURRICANE HARVEY SPENT the weekend battering the coastal regions of American state Texas, leaving three people dead and an unprecedented trail of devastation in its wake.

Footage (above) from the US Coast Guard shows much of the area around Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, resembling a giant lake.

The sheer extent of the rainfall and flooding led state governor Greg Abbott to declare: “we’re measuring the rain in feet, not inches.”

And the worst may not yet have happened – the hurricane seems set to move into the gulf for a number of days before circling back to make landfall once more later in the week.

Thus far, the storm has produced some unforgettable images, from nursing home patients trapped in waist-deep water to mobile homes ripped apart like tissue paper:

pa1 Water rushes through a massive sinkhole near Houston yesterday PA Images PA Images

CORRECTION Harvey Emily Zurawski calls her mother from an emergency command center in Port Arkansas, Texas Nick Wagner / PA Nick Wagner / PA / PA

News: Hurricane Harvey Corpus Christi, Texas SIPA USA / PA Images SIPA USA / PA Images / PA Images

Harvey A man walks through floodwaters in Houston Charlie Riedel / Pa Charlie Riedel / Pa / Pa

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Harvey inundates Southeast Texas A collapsed awning at a filling station in Webster, Texas Stuart Villanueva / PA Stuart Villanueva / PA / PA

Harvey A photo made available by Nasa of Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, 26 August AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

Harvey An Interstate 45 feeder road flooded at Galveston Yi-Chin Lee / Houston Chronicle Yi-Chin Lee / Houston Chronicle / Houston Chronicle

Harvey An unidentified man helping Carlos Torres to dry ground, near downtown Houston yesterday Charlie Riedel / PA Charlie Riedel / PA / PA

Harvey Michael Scott live streams the rain and wind of Hurricane Harvey in Galveston on Saturday Jennifer Reynolds / Pa Jennifer Reynolds / Pa / Pa

Harvey A mobile home sits on its side in Port Aransas, Texas Nick Wagner / PA Nick Wagner / PA / PA

Hurricane Harvey Hits Texas A downed streetlight continues its cycle in Corpus Christi on Saturday night Corpus Christi Caller-Times / TNS/ABACA Corpus Christi Caller-Times / TNS/ABACA / TNS/ABACA

Harvey Residents of Dickinson, Texas, wait for help on the second floor of their apartment complex yesterday Kelsey Walling / PA Kelsey Walling / PA / PA

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    Mute Pat Lonergan
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    Aug 1st 2018, 8:07 AM

    Day 1 and all ready I have made up my mind,what a poor selection.Really shows what a good President Micheal D is.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 8:32 AM

    @Pat Lonergan: shows how we are scraping the bottom of the barrel, all our best candidates have left, and we are left with the dross.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 8:33 AM

    @Pat Lonergan: he definitely is not.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 8:36 AM

    @Gus Sheridan: Best of that lot??? Without a shadow of a doubt.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 10:23 AM

    @Gus Sheridan: So which of the as of now declared candidates would you say comes with in as ass roar of Micheal D?

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    Aug 1st 2018, 7:58 AM

    How depressing

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    Aug 1st 2018, 8:03 AM

    A room full of headless chickens I’d say that was fun

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    Aug 1st 2018, 10:47 AM

    There has to be a collective noun for a group of complete eejits . This was a classic case.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 10:57 AM

    So it looks like we’re going to have a half dozen candidates again. All because it’s probably easier for the media to find stories if there’s more people involved. Pointless if you ask me.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 1:24 PM

    The Rás for The Áras…. Attention seekers

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    Aug 1st 2018, 2:57 PM

    Duffy who gets his kicks out of hunting innocent animals, not fit to represent Ireland, vile person.

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    Aug 1st 2018, 10:48 PM

    Gavin Duffy if u like people who torture animals for fun

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    Sep 11th 2018, 5:03 PM

    Not much there to get excited about

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