Texas Power Outages Top 2 Million as Beryl Pounds State
- ‘There’s a lot to be wary of’ as storm drenches state
- Houston roads underwater as city faces hurricane winds
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More than 2.5 million homes and businesses in Texas lost power and at least one person was killed after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in the state, bringing howling winds and driving rain that knocked out electric lines.
Most of the outages are in Houston and areas to the southeast that are close to where the storm made landfall shortly before 4 a.m. local time. The city is now facing tornado threats, wind gusts as high as 80 miles per hour (129 kilometers per hour), as much as eight inches (20 centimeters) of rain and flooding that has left some of major highways underwater.