It might have been a Derecho but the storm that hit Houston had to have some Tornadoes in it. I have been in a couple of Derechos and it was nothing like the storm that hit Houston.
Sorry to hear that, for what it’s worth I live in Florida and we occasionally spend a week (sometimes more) without power in this hot/humid swamp they call a “state”, after a hurricane. I know you all have them too on the rare occasion. Florida is pretty unbearable without AC from May to September, but I feel like I’d much rather have hot with no wind/humidity than what happens here - especially when there’s nowhere for the moisture to go. I hope you get your power back on soon!
@@TitaniumTurbine I'm finally getting some tree's cut off power lines right now and a power company from Oklahoma is waiting near by for the tree service to be done so the can get power going again
Hope you got your power back! We had to wait until Tuesday evening and the houses .5 miles north of us got there’s on Wednesday. There may still be some people without power
I live in Sugar Land, just southwest of Houston, and this was a whopper of a storm even by Texas standards. Thankfully I got though it with barely a scratch but many others did not.
I live on lake Conroe. I walked out in my balcony and the lake was like a choppy ocean. The sky was blue green. The last time Insaw something like that I had a devastating ice storm in Arizona that trashed every car in the parking lot and injured many people caught out in the open. It didn’t happen here but we missed a bullet. Stay safe.
They actually are pretty resilient to major rain events. The city can take 8 or 9 inches of rain in a day. But a few weeks ago outlying areas got 20+ inches, and in Harvey it was more like 50. I don’t know anyplace that could absorb that much rain and not have problems.
That reminds me of the day that the Flying Scotsman arrived in Brisbane, Queensland. I had parked behind some shops in Acacia Ridge to try and get a good view of the Interstate main line, but the train happened to arrive at the same time as a huge thunderstorm broke, and rain was pouring down so heavily, all you could see was a faint blur of smoke and steam. As some compensation, I got a good look at the engine on shed the next night.
@@stacydavis9336 those actually weren't confirmed tornadoes Those were basically straight line winds from the powerful derecho according to the NWS. The actual spun off twisters were as I said right there up to 290 corridor going towards Austin right there by Cypress and Waller.
@@AntilleanConfederation First, they didn’t say “the news”, they said the “the NWS” (National Weather Service). Second, I believe you have a severe condition that no amount of vaccines could fix anyways.
These storms are common in my city on the other side of the globe during summer. We can expect as many as a dozen in a year, not helped by being the windiest capital city in Australia. Doesn't make the storm any less dramatic or damaging though.
We lost a couple of tree limbs and it was creepy as hell black outside and when I started to hear limbs snap.. It was either the wind or a funnel cloud which hit up here in Spring.
@@jayasmrmore3687 Good to hear because a friend of mine's brother's friend who lives down in the Heights had a tree come through their roof in the room they were hiding in and my friend and his brother were without power for about a week.
@@jayasmrmore3687 My friend's brother wasn't specific on what kind of house it was, but I'm guessing it was one story if they were hiding in the room the tree fell through. I'm just relieved everyone escaped unharmed and we were able to get our trees cut back from our house within short order because we have a great landscaper who showed up like a boss himself with one other guy and five other guys the next day.
Reminds me of summers on Lake Michigan north of Ludington, Mi. It would happen a couple times every summer. It would be a bright sunny day, then 10 minutes later it night with heavy driving rain. We even had a water spout hit the cottage.
My daughter & her family experienced the derecho that went through Iowa a couple years ago, i experienced the one that went through Illinois last year, nothing short of freaking scary, but.....they have a safe room in their basement, i dont have one of those, i am S O L if 🌪 comes through my area 😵😨😱❗
@paulsmith5398 YEAH IT CAN HAVE A DUST STORM OR SO & MONSOON THUNDERSTORMS IN SUMMERTIME, BUT USUALLY THOSE ARENT AS BAD AS WEATHER EAST OF THE ROCKIES
Not a good comparison. The max winds we get in Florida from a more severe thunderstorm are gusts of 50-60mph but the majority of our infrastructure/buildings/homes are equipped to handle Cat 1-2 hurricanes. So it’s a totally different experience and our sky very rarely goes that pitch black. I’ve seen maybe half that darkness just over two-three decades.
This storm was classified as a Derecho. A storm with winds higher than 58 mph and it lasted for miles, with a bunch of tornadoes.
Ya Mean "Drencho"
It might have been a Derecho but the storm that hit Houston had to have some Tornadoes in it. I have been in a couple of Derechos and it was nothing like the storm that hit Houston.
@@wilburmcbride8096 most derechos are like 80 mph, but 100 mph is nuts
@@golfberg1Drencho is not a word. Please learn some simple vocabulary. 🤦🏼♂️
3 days later I'm sitting in the dark still watching this video 😂😆
Sorry to hear that, for what it’s worth I live in Florida and we occasionally spend a week (sometimes more) without power in this hot/humid swamp they call a “state”, after a hurricane. I know you all have them too on the rare occasion. Florida is pretty unbearable without AC from May to September, but I feel like I’d much rather have hot with no wind/humidity than what happens here - especially when there’s nowhere for the moisture to go. I hope you get your power back on soon!
@@TitaniumTurbine I'm finally getting some tree's cut off power lines right now and a power company from Oklahoma is waiting near by for the tree service to be done so the can get power going again
Hope you got your power back! We had to wait until Tuesday evening and the houses .5 miles north of us got there’s on Wednesday. There may still be some people without power
@Diecastjoe Ours came back last Monday. The power company got it on within half a day or so 👍
@@randomchaos5139 Great!!
I live in Sugar Land, just southwest of Houston, and this was a whopper of a storm even by Texas standards. Thankfully I got though it with barely a scratch but many others did not.
I live on lake Conroe. I walked out in my balcony and the lake was like a choppy ocean. The sky was blue green. The last time Insaw something like that I had a devastating ice storm in Arizona that trashed every car in the parking lot and injured many people caught out in the open. It didn’t happen here but we missed a bullet. Stay safe.
It reminded me of a Midwestern-style derecho in Iowa.
Spring Branch here. We had no warning. No rain, hail, wind, Nothing.
The wind went from 5 mph to over 100 mph in mere seconds.
We got warnings on our phones that said there could be winds up to 80mph and i didnt believe it till it happened. No one was ready for that
WOW! I've been hoping you would put up some footage of storms there! Thanks! That was wild!
Many people are unaware but Houston is largely flat. No hills, the tallest things are freeway overpasses. It floods easily.
Actually the buildings would be the tallest and then the freeways interchanges
Actually the building would be the tallest things then the freeway interchanges
When the GC&SF, (Gulf, Colorado, & SantaFe), built inland from the coast, they avoided it like the plague. But politics can change anybodys mind.
@@SCL6054Prouctionsyeah he is a 4 yr old
They actually are pretty resilient to major rain events. The city can take 8 or 9 inches of rain in a day. But a few weeks ago outlying areas got 20+ inches, and in Harvey it was more like 50. I don’t know anyplace that could absorb that much rain and not have problems.
Sending prayers to Houston and any area near by, 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏stay safe out there
Houston has taken a Hammering in the Weather Department, 🙏
YEAH..MUCH MORE 2 COME IN AMERICAS 4TH LARGEST CITY
More like by the weather department
0:40 did anyone see the power lines flash
YES! Transformers! One caught on fire in my back yard years ago.
I sure did!
I was sitting in apartment looking at the window at The Derecho, this was freaky.
That reminds me of the day that the Flying Scotsman arrived in Brisbane, Queensland. I had parked behind some shops in Acacia Ridge to try and get a good view of the Interstate main line, but the train happened to arrive at the same time as a huge thunderstorm broke, and rain was pouring down so heavily, all you could see was a faint blur of smoke and steam. As some compensation, I got a good look at the engine on shed the next night.
Thanks Aaron I wanted to see what the cameras picked up 👏🏽🎥
It was actual crazy I even had to move to calfornia for that tornado😢
That derecho picked up my behind & sent me to Kansas. Guess I'm not in Texas no more.
Did any tornados touch down in the area?
Ya 2 F1's
Northwest freeway Cypress and then Waller
Yes in Spring Branch and Downtown. it was scary and I was safe at home couldn't imagine being stuck in it
@@stacydavis9336 those actually weren't confirmed tornadoes
Those were basically straight line winds from the powerful derecho according to the NWS.
The actual spun off twisters were as I said right there up to 290 corridor going towards Austin right there by Cypress and Waller.
@@truckerkevthepaidtouristthe vaccine was also safe according to news.
@@AntilleanConfederation First, they didn’t say “the news”, they said the “the NWS” (National Weather Service). Second, I believe you have a severe condition that no amount of vaccines could fix anyways.
I was watching it live when the cameras went out. This was scary moment for the people going home from work.
The LAST thing I need is to be stuck with traffic during bad weather. NO THANK YOU !!!!
They should pull into a car wash or something if hail starts
How to get hit by a hurricane one month earlier than hurricane season Houston edition
They said at the airport the had 100mph winds at only 400 ft off the ground
Hobby or IAH
These storms are common in my city on the other side of the globe during summer. We can expect as many as a dozen in a year, not helped by being the windiest capital city in Australia. Doesn't make the storm any less dramatic or damaging though.
We lost a couple of tree limbs and it was creepy as hell black outside and when I started to hear limbs snap.. It was either the wind or a funnel cloud which hit up here in Spring.
I had one window in our house busted and 2 window shutters blown off other than that no damage to my house.
@@jayasmrmore3687 Good to hear because a friend of mine's brother's friend who lives down in the Heights had a tree come through their roof in the room they were hiding in and my friend and his brother were without power for about a week.
@@HyperActive7 oh no! Were they upstairs?
@@jayasmrmore3687 My friend's brother wasn't specific on what kind of house it was, but I'm guessing it was one story if they were hiding in the room the tree fell through. I'm just relieved everyone escaped unharmed and we were able to get our trees cut back from our house within short order because we have a great landscaper who showed up like a boss himself with one other guy and five other guys the next day.
Reminds me of summers on Lake Michigan north of Ludington, Mi. It would happen a couple times every summer.
It would be a bright sunny day, then 10 minutes later it night with heavy driving rain. We even had a water spout hit the cottage.
What happened to this cam?
I live in Houston, and my siblings were so scared of the Storm and were terrified when the Lights went out.
I use to live in memorial NW, any flooding there
Did the trains get halted due to the winds? Saw downtown had windows blown out from the skyscrapers. Said it was a derecho?
Yes, trains were stopped. I was on one when the dispatcher instructed us to stop because of high wind and tornado warnings.
Is this north of Houston near Conroe ??
This is in 5th Ward near Downtown Houston.
Here in League City, it was raining hard with hail
This storm is going down in history I think.
Every year for the last few years. Texas has taken a beating with the weather.
Wow! Simply incredible!!
I was at home at haltom before going to Galveston WHICh is near Houston
Looks like a typical Florida thunderstorm to me.
No one mentions how cold it was outside after the storm
I noticed there’s no trains running.
Hiuston Storm can be sudden string and crazy.
My daughter & her family experienced the derecho that went through Iowa a couple years ago, i experienced the one that went through Illinois last year, nothing short of freaking scary, but.....they have a safe room in their basement, i dont have one of those, i am S O L if 🌪 comes through my area 😵😨😱❗
PLZ MOVE TO THE WEST COAST. BETTER WEATHER
@@partnerwithjee5114 not for me, i can barely afford the cost of living here in Illinois, and San Andreas does its thing every so often.
@@paulsmith5398 PHOENIX BASICALLY DOSENT HAVE MANY NATURAL DISASTERS...JUST EXTREME HEAT FROM MAY-OCT/NOV
@paulsmith5398 YEAH IT CAN HAVE A DUST STORM OR SO & MONSOON THUNDERSTORMS IN SUMMERTIME, BUT USUALLY THOSE ARENT AS BAD AS WEATHER EAST OF THE ROCKIES
Same in Houston we have flooring but not tornadoes here. At least with Hurricane u know days before. This was crazy scary.
Where’s the tornado?
It passed quickly on my side of the woodlands my babies were looking out the window praying
Now classified as a derecho
Everyone talking about tornadoes here and tornados over there and tbh I did not see a single tornado all I saw was winds that looks like a hurricane!!
In Florida that's called, any afternoon in July.
Not quite this way 100+ mph winds with tornadoes
Not a good comparison. The max winds we get in Florida from a more severe thunderstorm are gusts of 50-60mph but the majority of our infrastructure/buildings/homes are equipped to handle Cat 1-2 hurricanes. So it’s a totally different experience and our sky very rarely goes that pitch black. I’ve seen maybe half that darkness just over two-three decades.
Houston Man is TOUGHER than Dallas Man!
that was a Shit show we didn't have any power in the Hardin county area for at least 2 day.
Englewood Yard
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Wow.
OMG!
Wow grey out
H-town hold it down
H-Town Still Holding