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The Conejo Malo club on May 17, 2024, one day after the National Weather Service warned of ‘severe’ thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. New footage shared on social media showed some of the ...
Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston, an official warned Friday, after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city, knocking out electricity to nearly 1 million ...
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said the storm was known to have killed four people and may have killed a fifth person. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said the search and tally of casualties was ...
Straight-line wind damage inflicted transmission towers in Houston, Texas. As the derecho moved through the Greater Houston area, it produced wind gusts of up to 100 mph (161 km/h) in Downtown Houston. [2] The derecho was considered the worst damaging wind event to affect Houston in nearly 25 years.
The storm had come ashore hours before daybreak with 110-mph (175 km/h) winds and towering waves, pushing boats ashore, smashing many houses, flooding thousands of homes, knocking out windows in Houston's skyscrapers, [2] uprooting trees, and cutting electric power to millions of customers (estimates range from 2.8 million [9] to 4.5 million ...
Exceptional windstorms that could leave some Houston residents without power for weeks were a once-in-a-generation event and the damage left in their wake is comparable to that caused by a ...
The storm damaged businesses, gas stations, and warehouses. [12] High waves damaged the foundation of a hotel in Puerto Morelos, causing its partial collapse; it was later demolished. [12] The hurricane caused significant flooding damage throughout the municipalities of Benito Juárez and Solidaridad, which include Cancún and Playa del Carmen ...
More than 900,000 homes and businesses lost power in Houston’s Harris County during the peak of the storm’s violent winds, and nearly 600,000 remained in the dark Friday evening, according to ...