Texas storms: At least 4 dead after Houston hit with hurricane-force winds, torrential rain

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Published 2024-05-17
A severe storm packing hurricane-force winds pummeled the Houston-area on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 homes without power as much of the area was plunged into darkness.

Much of downtown Houston and its commercial district were littered with fallen power lines and glass from shattered windows following the storm, with traffic and street lights knocked out across the city, the mayor, John Whitmire said.

The killer storm system also battered Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states, leaving them without power on Friday morning.

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All Comments (21)
  • @HRHDMKYT
    Where’s Senator Ted Cruz? Run away on another vacation outside of his state? 🤨
  • @canadaclub8920
    Yikes, godspeed to the good people of Texas. Sounds like a frightening storm.
  • @MrCalverino
    they had us packed in the stairwells of our office building, just imagine like 200 ppl just sitting and standing around in a very hot and stuffy environment
  • @davidp.aguilar7428
    When will we all stand up to BIG CORPORATIONS!!! They're responsible for all this weather damage and blame it on us, the public.
  • @Tha66
    គ្រោះធម្មជាតិពិតជាសាហាវ។ 😮
  • @user-fy7ru4ii1i
    0:55 everyone screaming as the power goes out, as though one one has a flashlight on their cellphones.
  • @Elmusiico
    That would be a great time to take Mike Miles in custody.
  • @martymethuselah
    how is the sport arena.. for gods sake protect the bread and circuses
  • @joanpaquette4066
    I don't understand why big buildings have so many windows. Looking at that one building, it's all windows.
  • @johnwang9914
    Reminds me of hurricane Ike... though usually the deaths would be someone running a portable generator too close to the house or trying to chop down a dead tree without the experience to do so. I remember that once a lady tried refueling her portable generator while it was still running and spilled some onto the hot engine...