Northern counties after a powerful
storm blew through yesterday afternoon.
Taking a look at video
sent in from our viewers.
Yeah, two people were killed.
Several homes and businesses damaged.
And we have live team coverage.
Chief meteorologist David Paul
and Michelle Choi in the Conroe
area speaking to neighbors there.
Meteorologist Pat Calvin tracking the latest.
Dave, let's start with you,
OK? We're on the Northside of Lake Conroe.
This is where. It appears that
it's straight line wind damage.
We're in the Malibu Cove subdivision,
Cape Malibu, and look at this root systems
completely removed from the ground.
And I want you to look down,
look at how wet the soil is.
This soupy soil from all the rains
we've had over the past month,
which have been way above normal,
just are allowing the trees to grip onto
the ground like they used to be able to.
And so you see several examples of trees that
have been uprooted and came down on houses.
In yards and the cleanup continues.
Ron, you're a long time resident
and you've been here since 1972,
so that's the year they
filled up Lake Conroe.
That's correct.
You were about to mow your
yard when this storm rolled in.
Tell me about what happened.
Well, I was going out in the
backyard to cut the grass and
I don't believe in coincidences
and the lawnmower wouldn't start.
The battery cable had corroded and.
So this storm came up all of a sudden.
It was beautiful day and the
power lines fell right across the
backyard and fire went everywhere.
And like I said,
I don't believe in coincidence.
God kept me from getting in the backyard.
Absolutely. God protected you.
And we've heard several stories
like that through the neighborhood
where it was just coincidence.
Or the Lord protecting people
up here in Cape Malaby.
Ron, thank you for telling us your story.
I'm glad that you were safe today as well.
Thank you very much.
It could have been a lot different,
but we're doing okay.
It's a big clean up here.
Guys, back to you from Cape Malibu.
All right. Thank you so much to that man
is lucky to be alive.
Or let's send things over now to
Michelle Choi in southeast Conroe
with new details about a deadly
house collapse thing.
Hey Sherman. Yeah.
Montgomery County emergency officials
say a twostory house collapsed
in this area as those strong
storms Dave was just talking about
ripped through this area as well.
In fact, take a look.
Hard to believe that this pile of lumber
was at one point a standing structure.
And new this afternoon,
we've now confirmed the identity
of the second victim killed
in this tragic collapse.
Family members say 30 year old on her
part that was working on the House
located here in Conrose New Ladera
Creek Community when yesterday storms
ripped through and the building
collapsed on him and eight other workers.
Authorities say the house was still under
construction and in its framing stage.
This morning on his family stopped by
the site hoping to get more information
about what happened from authorities,
but say they were told this was still
an open case and they'd have to wait.
The family tells us on Head was from Mexico,
but had lived in the Houston
area for more than 15 years,
working in construction.
His sisterinlaw didn't want
to be identified but shared.
And Head was always happy and that
they're heartbroken he's gone.
She says her phone started blowing
up as other workers who witnessed
the collapse began calling her.
They just gave me a call and
said my relative, you know,
they had an accident,
they were working and the house
fell down on top of them.
That's all I know.
And I mean, we went,
I call my other brotherinlaw and
went to the hospital and he's the
one that told us everything that.
What's going on?
Yeah, you hear her mention
another brother-in-law there.
That's because two people who were
working on the home with unheld yesterday,
she says were his family members.
Those two men along with five
other workers were all rushed
to the hospital with injuries.
But we've now learned six
of them are recovering.
Back at home. Sadly,
another person was killed in this collapse,
21 year old Brian Ruby Lopez Aguilar.
We were here as his father arrived
at the scene last night and share
these photos of his son with us.
Yeah, your heart just goes out to
the victims and their families.
Now more and more family members
are starting to show up. In fact,
in the last couple minutes, I met a woman.
Who says she is on her common law wife.
They've been together for four years.
She's actually here right now to
pick up his truck, which has been
sitting out here since yesterday.
Again, she tells me she is
devastated by this loss.
Now, I did speak with the Conroe Fire
Department's assistant chief this morning.
He tells me that crews will be
out today assessing the damage,
but so far they haven't received
any reports of major damage.
We also understand surveyors with the
National Weather Service will be making
their way here at some point today.
As well. Well, of course.
Keep you posted as we learn more.
Back to you, Shell.
Choi, thank you. We're going to
take a live look now of our skyline
from the Gulf freeway camera.
You're looking at downtown Houston.
We've got some cloudy skies at this hour.
Yeah, let's join Pat Calvin now.
Pat, what happened yesterday just
it was so fast. Yeah, it was.
And it caught a lot of people off guard.
I mean, even us included,
there was number forecast for thunderstorms.
So we got to actually go back in time and
look at where these storms developed.
It actually all came from a
piece of energy through West TX.
That piece of energy moved across the state.
It actually contained a little bit of
spin with it and when you combine that
spin in the atmosphere with the heat
and humidity that we had yesterday,
the fuel for these thunderstorms,
the result was what we had a lot of damage
with the straight line damage and wind gusts.
Again, the Weather Service out there
during doing surveys to determine
if a tornado did touch down,
but we had a severe thunderstorm warning
that became a tornado warning once
rotation was indicated in the storms.
We're going to do a deeper dive
on this coming up.
In full weather in just a few minutes,
but right now we've got temperatures
that are in the upper 70s,
low to mid 80s, couple clouds out there.
Right now we are dry,
but we're watching another area
of spin up towards Waco that's
diving S towards our direction.
Future track brings us storms.
We'll give you the latest forecast
coming up after the break.