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Houston area school districts canceled classes for more than 400,000 students Friday. The Houston Independent School District, the state’s largest, said 215 of its 274 campuses would be open Monday.
The heavy rain and powerful storms also flooded streets and busted windows in downtown buildings. In Harris County, where Houston is, about 782,000 homes and businesses were without power at about ...
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]
Several counties spanning parts of the Greater Houston metropolitan area and Beaumont, Texas, recorded over 30 in (760 mm) of rain. A maximum rainfall total of 44.29 in (1,125 mm) was documented at a station 2 mi (3.2 km) south-southwest of Fannett, Texas ; this made Imelda the seventh-wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history , fifth-wettest in ...
Hurricane Alicia was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused significant destruction in the Greater Houston area of Southeast Texas in August 1983. Although Alicia was a relatively small hurricane, its track over the rapidly growing metropolitan area contributed to its $3 billion damage toll, making it the costliest Atlantic hurricane at the time.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said the powerful gusts were reminiscent of 2008's Hurricane Ike, which pounded the city, adding, "Our first responders will be working around the clock."
Deep convection persisted north of the cyclone's center near the Houston metropolitan area along a stationary front, resulting in several days of record-breaking rain. Early on August 30, the former hurricane made its fifth and final landfall just west of Cameron, Louisiana with winds of 45 mph (72 km/h).
HOUSTON – Just a couple of days after tornadoes created dramatic scenes around the greater Houston area, storms have again caused damage and at least one death Saturday on the outskirts of the ...