Many Houston area residents are having a rude awakening Friday morning after a line of strong storms settled into the region Thursday evening. The storms brought heavy rainfall, destructive straight-line winds and several possible tornadoes. According to Space City Weather, these severe conditions — which began at about 6:30 p.m...
Many Houston area residents are having a rude awakening Friday morning after a line of strong storms settled into the region Thursday evening. The storms brought heavy rainfall, destructive straight-line winds and several possible tornadoes., these severe conditions — which began at about 6:30 p.m. — caused significant damage, including reports of downed power lines and traffic lights, fallen trees and debris, broken fences, gas leaks and shattered windows in buildings throughout downtown.
Whitmire compared the high winds, reaching up to 100 mph, brought in by the storms to those that occurred during Hurricane Ike, which hit Houston in 2008.Roughly one million Harris County residents were without power Thursday evening, and about 750,000 of these customers remained without power on Friday morning. Whitmire said that, given the widespread nature of these outages, it could take up to 48 hours to fully restore power throughout Houston.
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