(9 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Houston – 9 July 2024
1. Mad riding bike down sidewalk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Robinson, Houston resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“It’s hot, it’s like devastating."
3. Erica Robinson waiting for bus with umbrella
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Robinson Houston resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“The milk is about to spoil because the refrigerator is well, you try to keep it closed, but we’re about to lose what we have if they can’t get the power back on.”
5. Gas station sign
6. Cars waiting for gas
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Robinson Houston resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“They did send a message saying that they know that over 800 or 1,000 people in my area are without power and they’ll get to us when they can. And that was the last thing I heard. And then I lost power on my phone and have no way to recharge it.”
8. Erica Robinson waiting for bus with umbrella
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Robinson Houston resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“I’m about to lose the resources that I have and I’m about to lose all the energy that I have trying to survive.”
10. Exterior Bayland Community Center
11. Various people in cooling center
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Raquel Desimone, Houston resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“I’ve been here since 2000-something. So I went through Rita and Ike, Imelda, Harvey. And then this year, my complex has lost power twice without hurricanes. So I’m sort of used to it. It’s really frustrating."
13. Various Desimone’s dog Nora
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Raquel Desimone, Houston resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“It seems incredibly common that the infrastructure can’t handle a basic storm. Leaving for a category one (hurricane) is sort of crazy to me that I’m having to do this.”
15. Sun in sky
16. Man in hammock under trees
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Lesley Briones, Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 4:
“It is over 100 degrees. It’s going to hit 106, 108 with the heat index. And so when you’re in this hot, humid condition, whether it’s our seniors, whether it’s individuals with health vulnerabilities that they need to plug in oxygen tanks, not having power is just…the heat is oppressive here.”
18. Woman fanning herself at cooling center
STORYLINE:
Many of the millions left without power after Hurricane Beryl crashed into Texas, killing several people and unleashing flooding, sweltered and grumbled Tuesday as the storm deprived much of the nation’s fourth-largest city of air conditioning, food and water in sweltering heat and humidity.
A heat advisory took effect through Wednesday in the Houston area and beyond, with temperatures expected to soar into the 90s (above 32.2 Celsius) and humidity that could make it feel as hot as 105 degrees (40.5 Celsius).
Beryl, which made landfall early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, has been blamed for at least seven U.S. deaths — one in Louisiana and six in Texas — and at least 11 in the Caribbean. At midday Tuesday, it was a post-tropical cyclone centered over Arkansas and was forecast to bring heavy rains and possible flooding to a swath extending to the Great Lakes and Canada.
More than 2 million homes and businesses around Houston lacked electricity Tuesday, down from a peak of over 2.7 million on Monday, according to PowerOutage.us. For many, it was a miserable repeat after storms in May killed eight people and left nearly 1 million without power amid flooded streets.
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