Storms tear down powerlines in Cypress

Published 2024-05-16
A severe storm left damage and tore down powerlines in Cypress Thursday.

All Comments (21)
  • I'm pretty sure my light company is still going to wait on this payment tomorrow morning
  • @WiIdbiII
    I was at Kroger in kingwood , just finished checking out and paying for my groceries when the power surged. Registers didn't seem to want to reboot for the customers behind me. I got lucky because i was out of groceries and all the fast food places were down because of the power issues.
  • I'm still without power, and it's 12:34 a.m. The power has been out since 6 p.m.
  • @Robert.DeCorah
    Those towers are built to withstand 140mph winds. It may take a month or so to get official reports, but I guarantee that area had winds in excess of 145mph. How do I know this? The exact towers were damaged in the exact way during the August 2020 Derecho that hit Cedar Rapids, IA. Those towers in Marion, IA is how they determined max wind speed for the storm. Cedar Rapids lost roughtly 65% of it's trees from that straight line wind event.
  • @Johngengelbach2
    Wow, near where I used to live, Now living in Southwest Florida
  • These are made to withstand a strong Hurricane... this is an intentional flaw in my humble opinion!!
  • I just loved how the national weather alerts gave a 30 seconds notice warning to seek shelter of a tornado warning...I was on 99 at bridge land creek pkway, complete dark sky unable to see.....I witnessed those lines go down those flaming sparks.....no where to seek shelter but under the tuckerton 99 bridge....scary not knowing it was a scene from twister...trees flying no escape
  • @daltondees2209
    I drove from Austin to hockley as this was hitting....what a blast
  • @holyspirit606
    You guy's worked really hard, toget get the people their lights on. Good job. Be safe out there. ✌️💙😇🙏
  • @kitbiggz6135
    No one will be able to afford the insurance in the Houston area soon between the flooding issues and now tornadoes
  • @TanyaOwens
    I experienced the tornado at my home. I live 2 miles east of those crumpled towers. We've got lots of damage here including to Postma Elementary school.
  • @Jaxxal.
    Anyone else see the red and blue flashing lights coming from the power grid?
  • @danielelise7348
    Reporters really need to learn what this infrastructure is called,they are 500kV transmission lines, it's not difficult.🙄