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For a size comparison, this is what the burn area of the Smokehouse Creek Fire would look like compared to the state of Connecticut: And here's how a 500,000-acre burn area compares with Manhattan:
Hurricane Beryl landing on Texas coast has caused several road closures and delays in the Houston area and beyond. More than 1 million customers have lost power within hours of Beryl's landfall ...
A six-hour manhunt ensued resulting in a police shootout in south Houston in a commercial area off of Stella Link Road. The perpetrator was found hiding in a Dumpster by U.S. Marshal K-9 Rocky.
As many as 2.7 million electricity customers in the Houston area are left without power in the storm's aftermath, representing the most extensive power outage suffered by CenterPoint Energy. [184] Rainfall accumulations of 8–12 in (200–300 mm) cover the Houston area, [185] reaching as high as 14.88 in (378 mm) in Hilshire Village. [183]
June 5–9, 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison devastates the Houston area flooding much of the city including the Central Business District, several cultural institutions and major hospitals and research facilities in the Texas Medical Center. The storm is called a 500-year event.
On July 9, 2014, a mass shooting occurred in a home located in northern Harris County, Texas, near the Spring census-designated place, a suburban area of the Greater Houston area, leaving six family members dead, four children, and a lone survivor. Ronald Lee Haskell, 34, was apprehended after a standoff that lasted several hours.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a state of disaster declaration in 60 counties earlier in the week. Citizens of Moore, Potter, Hemphill, and Hutchinson counties have been forced to leave their ...
If you can't see the map above, click on this link. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Track Texas fires: Map traces wildfires burning in real-time Show comments