Posted on 05/16/2024 9:27:06 PM PDT by texas booster
There's damage all over the Greater Houston area after a thunderstorm brought powerful wind and heavy rain. At least four people were killed, Mayor John Whitmire said, and he urged everyone to stay off the roads and stay safe.
In scenes reminiscent of Hurricane Alicia back in 1983, the storm blew out hundreds of windows of downtown skyscrapers leaving workers scrambling for cover and glass all over the streets and sidewalks. The damaged buildings include the Wells Fargo Plaza, Total Energies, Enterprise Plaza, Kinder Morgan and Chevron.
Workers on higher floors say they felt the towers sway amid the whipping wind.
“I could feel the floor moving," Ann Tran told us. "I was sitting in an office and a door was just sliding in and out by itself."
Another downtown worker shared video with KHOU 11 News reporter Jason Miles that showed a window blowing out in a tunnel level restaurant of the Wells Fargo Plaza where people huddled during the storm.
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We had a straight line wind storm in Mississippi
We still talk about it. The damage was amazing. No tornados. It took a lot to convince us there was no tornado.
Good thing that wasn’t a much taller building.
Houston and surrounding region has incredibly wild and interesting weather, 30 minute storms out of nowhere that rip off roofs and down trees, floods, tornados, hurricanes.
One of them things hit us in Maryland back in 2012. Power was out for a few days.
Damage to glass is most often the result of wind born objects striking the building
A very common but dangerous wind borne particle was shown by Texas A&M researchers to be the loose gravel on built up roofs. That research is decades old so the flying articles was likely something else
Loose gravel on roofs?
Makes sense once we think about it.
Have seen hurricane force winds takes part of a shingle roof and bust open another house.
Creating yet more debris in the winds.
The Cabal is using their weather modification technology because they’re backed into a corner in the ongoing WWIII. Doubt that, look at the weather modification patents. Check out the California fires, Lahaina DEW disaster.
I remember a similar problem in San Francisco years ago in which windows were just popping out and falling. Tests showed falling glass was extremely dangerous.
Wind = Building Puke
Storms can get nasty.
Back in the late ‘80’s a storm brew up coming west towards the White Tank Mountains in the Valley of the Sun.
I called base weather as I had a Radar still under power.
The sky was black and winds calm.
They had nothing much to say. During that call the building started shaking and hail was hell.
I dropped the phone to get out to the Radar into free well (Get the motor turned off).
It was to late and I could not reach it, the storm blew me back 10ft.
Pedestal was cracked.
This was a crazy storm.
Sounds like they’re leaning towards it being a derecho.
https://www.click2houston.com/weather/2024/05/17/heres-what-hit-houston-yesterday/
Yep. After Hurricane Harvey there were about 2 million power customers that had lost power.
That storm came out of Central Texas, hit Houston and continued on to the panhandle of Florida.
I was flying home from a trip to south Florida today. DELAYS all over the place.
Lot of airport disruptions.
They actually had to test for that? Are they stupid?
Yes. Some of them twisted like pretzels.
I feel lucky the tree in my front yard did not fall on the house. It lost several large branches and several landed on the roof, but without doing any major damage.
Someone told us, earlier, today that this was a derecho.
That it came in, from W TX, and made a 100 mile swath.
I haven’t seen any evidence of that, yet. Have you?
I know that it was crazy here for hours - one band after another, producing high winds, lots of rain, thunder and lightning and it even got dark as night here twice that morning and afternoon. Apparently, it was even more vicious as it got to the Houston area. Some of my friends still don’t have their power back on.
I believe that it started around Austin and headed as a line straight down and over to Houston, then continued on into LA and beyond... well exceeding the miles of length criterion for a derecho... from some of the damage photos that I have seen, I think that there were a couple of small twisters embedded in it as well... 🤷🏽♂️
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