(17 May 2024)
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Houston – 17 May 2024
1. Mid of a car crushed by fallen bricks after a severe thunderstorm
2. Various of a collapsed building wall, recovery cleanup underway
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Henley Brown, Propane delivery worker:
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“It’s a brick building, and it, it knocked down. You can see the TV’s kind of hanging on the side. So, that’s a, a load-bearing wall, right? It’s all brick. I hadn’t seen a brick building fall down like that here, you know. So, it’s a lot. Luckily, there’s no explosion huh?."
4. Brown securing covers to propane gas
5. Various city workers trimming fallen trees
6. Various of workers cleaning up
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yesenia Guzmán, restaurant employee:
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“Well, a lot of trees were down. The streets, the light poles were down, and it’s very ugly, it’s really very ugly downtown. We don’t really know what’s going to happen. If they are going to pay us, but we don’t really know. We are just going to wait for them to let us know because there is no electricity where we work.”
8. Car crushed by bricks in a parking lot
STORYLINE:
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says it could take “weeks” for power to be restored in some parts of Houston following fierce storms with winds of up to 100 miles per hour.
At least four people were killed after the storms Thursday swept through Harris County, which includes Houston.
The National Weather Service said it confirmed a tornado with peak winds of 110 miles per hour touched down near the northwest Houston suburb of Cyprus in Harris County.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said crews were still trying to determine the extent of the damage and the number of casualties.
AP video shot by Lekan Oyekanmi
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