Residents in northern counties continue
picking up the mess left behind
during last night's fast moving storm.
Strong winds knocked down treesd
knocked out power all across the area.
We have team coverage and all this damage.
Gerald Harris is in spring this evening,
Meteorologist Kim Castro near Te
Woodlands and Meteorologist Timn
day just tracking the rain right now.
But first, Gerald,
how things looking up in spring.
Residents here are hoping thingt
back to normal as soon as possi.
Many are dealing with major
damage to their homes and cars.
Take a look at this.
Two trees split a home on
Bayonne Drive in multiple place.
Thankfully, no one was home when
the large pine trees toppled ov.
Here's how a neighbor describes
what he saw and heard as
his family sought shelter
when I was rolling in.
You can start seeing
Transformers popping off,
turning the sky green and blue
and whatever color. And then.
As soon as the wind started comg
out of nowhere within 5 minutes,
it felt like a tornado was coming through.
The trees also disrupted power lines,
leaving folks without power for hours.
However, some homeowners are usg
generators to get through the t,
especially with the heat,
but we have seen Center Point surveyors
and lineman working to restore power.
An important note from Center P,
if you see a downed power line,
they advise you to stay a safe distance away.
In spring, Gerald Harris Kato, you 11 News
take every precaution out there.
Thank you, Gerald.
Let's send it now over to Kim Castro.
She's staged near The Woodlandsd
tell us that what you are seeing there.
Yeah, here at Timber Trail you do a 360 Recon
and you see damage everywhere you look.
A reminder as to the intensity and the
dangers surrounding straight line winds.
We're seeing a multitude of
larger trees completely snap,
no shortage of branches on the ground
and damage to homes all along the street.
Just check out that tree that ta
significant portion of the front lawn,
grassy bed along with it on its
way as a toppled down along thi.
Carport 2 cars parked underneath
it just completely smashed.
There are residents all along the street
doing a multitude of cleanup efs
from larger damage like this tot
cleaning up tree branches so that crews
can get by here and start worki.
Center Point Energy going from e
to home again trying to restore power.
Now one thing I will mention,
neighbors are a little bit on ee
because there's a lot of onlook
or traffic coming by here so jut
try and stay home and.
Allow these people to clean up their homes.
The damage, like I said,
708090 mile an hour winds guys.
This is indicative very in line
with what an EF1 tornado would .
So this type of damage.
Cannot be understated and it's something
we got to watch for very carefu,
Tim.
I know you're keeping a close ee
on radar at this afternoon.
Yeah, let's talk about those wind gusts
though that you were mentioning, Kim.
97 mile per hour gusts
recorded at Bush airport.
That's the strongest wind
gusts ever recorded there.
A spring 80 mile per hour wind gusts,
The Woodlands at 70.
That's certainly strong enough o
takedown a lot of those big tre.
That Kim was just showing us
out there right now things are
much quieter this evening.
All the storm activity
is well off to the east,
but we do have a minor threat
and level one risk here.
Basically seeing the atmosphere
is capable producing some strong
storms with some gusty winds
if they're able to develop and
modeling is not too suggestive
on that occurring this evening.
We should remain quiet for most of us
right on through the overnight hours.
Another risk comes our way tomo,
but it's going to be another warmer day.
Temperatures in the mid 90s before we
creep back up into the triple digits.
We'll talk.
About when that heat arrives and
how long it stays this time aro.
When I see you get in a few min.
Len,
Mia,
we'll see you then. Thank you, .
And we are tracking power
outages across the area.
On your left is the Center
Point outage tracker.
We can see there at least 74,000
people are still without power.
Center Point tells us there wasa
peak of 324,000 outages last ni.
And on your right now on the
right hand side of your screen
is the energy outage tracker.
Right now at least 6000 people e
no power energy reported to peaf
nearly 50,000 outages last nigh.
Remember, there are places to beat the heat.
If you do not have power.
Take a look at your screen.
All of the red dots on the map represent
cooling centers in the Houston .
Quite a few.
They are open weekdays and on Saturdays.
And if you need a ride to a cooling center,
simply call 311.
And they're cooling centers
up in Montgomery County.
They are open until 8:00 PM Youn
head to Saint Simon and Saint Je
Catholic Parish in The Woodland,
the W Montgomery County Communiy
Center that's in Magnolia,
and the Lone Star Community
Center off Lone Star Parkway.
Also, text the word HEAT to 713-526-1111.
We'll send all the information n
cooling centers right to your p.