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"By using the wind power law, AccuWeather experts say a measured wind gust of 71 mph at 33 feet, over a coverage of many trees and occasional buildings where the measurement was, would equate to ...
As the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured the Houston area on Tuesday to assess the damage from last week’s deadly storms, local officials reassured residents still without ...
Whitmire's office posted a photo Friday on the social platform X showing the mayor signing a disaster declaration, which paves the way for state and federal storm recovery assistance. The problems extended to the city’s suburbs, with emergency officials in neighboring Montgomery County describing the damage to transmission lines as ...
At least four people have died in Houston as severe weather blasted through the city, an official said, as strong storms lashed parts of Texas with destructive winds and dangerous flooding.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said crews with CenterPoint Energy had been working hard to restore power to residents dealing with temperatures of about 90 degrees (32 Celsius) and heat indexes approaching 100 degrees (38 Celsius). At the height of the power outages, nearly 1 million people in the Houston area were without electricity.
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 tower is among Houston's most visible buildings as the 4th-tallest in Texas, and the 51st-tallest in the United States. The Williams Tower is the tallest building in Houston outside of Downtown Houston, [3] and is the tallest skyscraper in the United States outside of a city's central business district. It has been referred to as the ...
The Kinder Morgan Building (formerly known as the El Paso Energy Building and before that the Tenneco Building) [2] is a 502-foot (153 m) high-rise office building/skyscraper located in Houston, Texas. [3] It was completed in 1965 [1] and has 33 floors.