Morning Mix: Harvey, Taylor Swift and 6 dorm room essentials
HARVEY CONTINUES TO POUND SOUTH TEXAS
The Washington Post reports that Hurricane Harvey is expected to dump nearly 50 inches of rain around Southeast Texas by the time the storm finally crawls out of the region on Tuesday or Wednesday. Additional reports from The Daily Beast and the Associated Press say 18 counties have been declared disaster areas and that nearly 56,000 calls have come into 911. An estimated 9 trillion gallons of water have already fallen on the area. The Post estimates that if it were collected, it would fill a cube two miles wide and two miles tall.
Gas prices are expected to rise swiftly in the wake of the storm, which has already knocked out 15% of U.S. oil-refinery capacity.
Social media is already playing a key role in the crisis, now leading the effort to raise funds for those who have lost their homes.
The fund passed goal of $200K in first 2 hours. Watt then tweeted he was raising the goal to $500K: https://t.co/h6NcAyzRUR #HoustonStrong
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 28, 2017
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T-SWIFT SET A NEW SPOTFIY STREAMING RECORD
Taylor Swift’s latest “Look What You Made Me Do,” is so popular it’s like, Ed Sheeran popular. According to Music Business Worldwide, the song “broke the day-one Spotify record – surpassing the 6.87m streams attracted by Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You,” gathering a total of 7.91 million streams on Friday.If you haven’t seen the video (which has just a few plays – like 20 million), here it is:
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WHAT A BUSY WEEKEND
Game of Thrones wrapped up season 7 last night. If you didn’t see it (but we know you did), Entertainment Weekly wrapped it up.
Floyd Mayweather beat Connor McGregor Saturday night in Las Vegas to push his professional record to a tidy 50-0. CBS Sports has all the deets on the Superfight.
And for many of you, it was move-in weekend, which the Chicago Tribune said arrives like “a load of bricks and mini-fridges.” Hope yours went well.
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AND SPEAKING OF MOVE-IN DAY, HERE ARE THE TOP 6 ESSENTIALS YOU NEED
Temple University‘s Alicia Geigel knows all about moving day and she’s got this. She runs down six essentials for your living space, including a very-cool nightlight that has a bluetooth speaker. And we all know how much college students need (but rarely get) sleep.
And if you’re still with us, congrats, you’re as ready for this Monday as you’re gonna get. Go crush it.
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