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Power lines downed by the effects of Hurricane Beryl block a highway near Palacios, Texas, on Monday.
Power lines downed by the effects of Hurricane Beryl block a highway near Palacios, Texas, on Monday. (Eric Gay / AP)

Hurricane Beryl's Impact Immediately Felt as It Makes Landfall in Texas - Widespread Power Outages Reported

 By Joe Saunders  July 8, 2024 at 8:20am
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Hurricane Beryl delivered a beating when it made landfall in Texas.

The Category 1 storm came ashore about 4 a.m. Monday local time near Matagorda, about 110 miles south of Houston, according to USA Today.

It left power outages affecting 1.7 million customers, according to KTRK-TV in Houston. And it caused at least one death in Texas.

In Harris County, home to Houston, a 53-year-old man was sheltering in his home with his family when a tree downed by the storm fell on the house, according to NBC News.

The man’s wife and children were not hurt, according to a social media post by Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.

Beryl caused at least 11 deaths as it made its way through the Caribbean, according to The Associated Press.

The storm spurred plenty of social media posts:

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The storm was expected to continue moving north, bringing heavy rains to southeastern Texas, Arkansas and southern Missouri on Monday and Tuesday, USA Today reported.

About 14 million Americans from Texas to southern Illinois were under flood watches, NBC News reported.

“As tropical moisture heads north through the week, the storm could produce 2 to 4 inches of rain and raise flood concerns for cities such as St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit,” the report said.

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Joe Saunders
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Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015.
Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn't need a printing press to do it.
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