A brief-but-haunting video released by NASA on Thursday night shows Hurricane Harveys powerful churn toward Central Texas, where the slow-moving storm is expected to throttle coastal communities with high winds and up to 25 inches of rain.
The footage was captured just after 6 p.m. by cameras aboard the International Space Station, not long after the tropical cyclone aided by warm water and favorable winds regenerated over the Gulf of Mexico. An astronaut on board, Marine Corps Col. Randy Bresnik, later tweeted two photos of the storm with a message of solidarity for those in its path:
“God Bless Texas, may you weather the storm as you always have!”