Texas Parks and Wildlife offering free campsites to those fleeing Beryl
TEXAS (KXAN) -- State parks across Texas are open for evacuees fleeing Beryl after it made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the Texas Gulf Coast Monday morning.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department posted on social media Monday it would provide free campsites to people evacuating the storm.
Some Gulf Coast and Houston-area parks were closed ahead of Beryl's arrival in anticipation of the storm and potential flooding conditions. Available parks can be found online.
Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane near Matagorda, Texas around 4 a.m. Monday with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. It continued moving northeast through the Houston metro area and was downgraded to a tropical storm around 10 a.m.
Two people died Monday morning after the storm caused trees to fall on two, separate Harris County houses.
Find details on Beryl's path in KXAN's Tropical Timeline tracker.