Approaching Hurricane Beryl Shifts Course Towards Texas Coastal Region

Named storm Beryl, previously a hurricane and now a tropical storm, is forecasted to strengthen back to hurricane force before its third landfall in Texas. The storm’s projected path has shifted northward, with landfall expected on the central coast of Texas early Monday. Beryl made history as the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, forming on July 1 and causing fatalities in the Caribbean and Venezuela before weakening and hitting the Yucatan as a tropical storm.

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Barge Navigates to Galveston Bridge, Containing Oil Spill

A unified command was established to manage the response to the barge strike on the Pelican Island Causeway in Galveston, Texas. The collision resulted in a spill of vacuum gas oil into the water. The response team has contained the source, deployed boom, and is conducting aerial surveys to assess the extent of the spill. The Pelican Island Bridge was also damaged in the incident.

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