(19 May 2024)
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Cypress, Texas – 18 May 2024
1. Various down power transmission lines
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hallie O’Bannon, Cypress resident:
“It’s been crazy. It’s been a madhouse out here. You know we don’t have any power. No hot water. It’s been really crazy. Mother Nature definitely did his thing out here.”
3. Mid of crates of relief aid being moved
4. Various of officer directing cars to receive aid
5. Mid of person moving bottles of water
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Heffernan, Harris County Precinct Four–Commissioner Lesley Briones:
“When you don’t have electricity, especially in Houston, especially, you know, it may be May, but it feels like the summer already here. You need access to ice, food and water.”
7. Various of woman counting cars driving and picking up supplies UPSOUND No name given (English): “378. And that’s counting these three cars”
8. Cars waiting in line
9. Sign reading (English): “Closed. No water or Electricity”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Hallie O’Bannon, Cypress resident:
“Everyone is pretty resilient and everyone’s just trying to get back to normal and help each other out in the best way we can because, you know, it’s just, it’s crazy.”
11. Various of Cypress resident, Raymond Lamm, clearing tree in front of home with chainsaw
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Lamm, Cypress resident:
“Friday night, maybe about 7/7:30, we got a call from my wife that the tornado had her car out by the mailbox, which is about probably a minute and a half right to my left. And it actually turned the vehicle 90 degrees in the road.”
13. Various downed stop sign
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Lamm, Cypress resident:
“The tree came down here. All flower pots are still intact. How can that be? This tree is down, this one is up.”
15. Homes with damaged fences and roofs
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Lamm, Cypress resident:
“I don’t think we’re even in hurricane season. And if it is like this now, you know, what’s going to happen? It seems like each year progressively gets worse. I don’t know. But hopefully it doesn’t. But, you know, I think it’s probably going to get worse.”
17. Lamm clearing down tree in front of home with chainsaw
STORYLINE:
As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and scorching temperatures that could pose health risks.
Volunteers and municipal staff distributed water and food at aid sites across the city, including the Weekley Community Center, where more than 300 cars had collected supplies by Saturday afternoon.
“It’s been crazy. It’s been a madhouse out here. You know we don’t have any power. No hot water. It’s been really crazy. Mother Nature definitely did his thing out here,” said Hallie O’Bannon.
Cypress resident Raymond Lamm lives just down the road from a stretch of down power transmission lines that knocked out electricity for much of his neighborhood.
Though his home escaped significant damage, he said swirling winds nearly blew his wife’s car off the road.
“I don’t think we’re even in hurricane season. And if it if it’s like this now, you know, what’s going to happen? It seems like each year progressively gets worse,” Lamm said.
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