(19 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cypress, Texas – 18 May 2024
1. Various down power transmission lines
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hallie O’Bannon, Cypress resident: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT ++
“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. Pallet of aid relief being moved
4. Various of woman counting cars driving to pick up supplies UPSOUND No name given (English): “378. And that’s counting these three cars.”
5. Various of officer directing vehicles to pick up aid
6. Sign reading (English): "Closed. No water or Electricity.”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Heffernan, Harris County Precinct Four–Commissioner Lesley Briones: ++STARTS ON SHOT 5++
“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.”
8. Water being carried to car
9. Various of Cypress resident, Raymond Lamm, clearing felled tree in front of home with chainsaw
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Lamm, Cypress resident: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 11++
“Friday night, maybe about 7/7:30, we got a call that, 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.”
11. Various of downed stop sign
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Lamm, Cypress resident:
“The tree came down here. All flower pots are still intact. How can that be? This trees down, this one is up.”
13. Various of damaged homes, power transmission lines
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Lamm, Cypress resident: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 15++
“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."
15. Lamm clearing felled 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 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 observed.
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