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Surfing Tropical Storm Nicholas
Surfing Tropical Storm Nicholas
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1. Nicholas strengthens before hitting Texas as hurricane

Tropical Storm Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast early Tuesday, bringing potentially "life-threatening" flooding from storm surge and heavy rainfall, the National Hurricane Center said. Parts of Texas and southwestern Louisiana braced Monday for 6 to 12 inches of rain, with isolated areas expected to get up to 20 inches. Nicholas hit about 20 miles northeast of Matagorda, Texas, and 25 miles west-southwest of Freeport, Texas, with top sustained winds of 75 miles per hour, just above the threshold for a hurricane. The storm is expected to move across parts of the upper Texas Gulf Coast into far southwestern Louisiana, threatening more rain in some areas still recovering from Hurricane Ida. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.