<div>Dave Eggers: 'As the hurricane bore down, Trump tweeted his excitement'</div>

The novelist counts the political cost of hurricanes Harvey and Irma• ‘Everything is gone’: Americans return to their flooded homesIt had been 12 years, since Katrina, that an Atlantic hurricane of this strength had made landfall on the American mainland.On 17 August, meteorologists were watching storm formations in the Atlantic. They named one Potential Tropical Cyclone 9. Later that night, they renamed it Tropical Storm Harvey. For the next week, the storm was downgraded to a Tropical Wave, then upgraded to a Tropical Depression. But as it closed in on the coast of Texas, fuelled by warm Gulf of Mexico waters, it grew stronger and was headed for the coast of Texas. Continue reading...