HurricaneLaura is almost a Category 5 storm. The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday night said that maximum sustained winds had increased to 150 mph.
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"It looks like it's in full beast mode, which is not what you want to see if you're in its way," University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy said. Abbott warned that people who fail to get out of harm's way could be cut off from help long after the storm hits. For some, the decision to leave home left them with no place to stay. Wary of opening mass shelters during a pandemic, Texas officials instead put evacuees in hotels, but Austin stopped taking arrivals before dawn because officials said they ran out of rooms. Other evacuees called the state's 211 information line and were directed to Ennis, outside Dallas, only to be told after driving hundreds of miles no hotels or vouchers were available.
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