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Floodwaters swirl around the Romero house in Surfside Beach, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) A man takes pictures before the arrival of Tropical Storm Alberto at Bagdad Beach in Matamoros, Mexico.
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Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas on July 8, 2024, causing 42 [1] deaths due to strong winds and heavy rainfall knocking over trees and causing drownings. . Hurricane Beryl was also significant for causing over 2.7 million households and businesses near the Gulf Coast, primarily in the Houston metropolitan area, to suffer from prolonged power outages during high temperatures ...
However, the actual landfall was further east, over the east end [6] of Galveston Island (near Texas City, TX), with the eye centered over Galveston Bay. Because some winds blew from the north at Galveston, water was pushed back out into the Gulf, and the actual storm surge there was muted to 19 ft (5.8 m), [6] rather than the original ...
The accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. after a tugboat operator pushing two barges lost control of them, said David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District.
The Beach Hotel, a famous 19th century Galveston resort. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 devastated the city of Galveston and heavily damaged communities around the bay. [18] Growth moved inland to Houston, as fear of the risks posed by establishing businesses at Galveston limited the island's ability to compete. Texas City emerged as another ...
Homes flooding in Texas as severe storms ramp up across the South, including a threat of strong tornadoes Robert Shackelford, Dalia Faheid and Mary Gilbert, CNN April 10, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Hurricane Nicholas was a slow-moving and erratic tropical cyclone that made landfall in the U.S. state of Texas in mid-September 2021. The fourteenth named storm and sixth hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, Nicholas originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on August 28.