A severe storm with damaging winds, prompting tornado alerts, passed through Houston and surrounding areas late Thursday, leaving behind a trail of damage.
In west Harris County, ABC13’s cameras captured a couple of downed transmission lines at West and Fry Road.
“These are the strongest ones, the ones that carry the highest current, and it takes a lot of wind to topple something like this because they’re built to withstand high winds,” Chief Forecaster David Tillman said during Thursday’s coverage update on the downed lines.
Also in Katy, along Fry Road and FM-529, eyewitness photos showed damage to a home’s backyard and a tree that snapped, with part of it on top of a vehicle.
Hurricane-force wind gusts also slashed storm-weary Texas and Louisiana, while drivers in Bryan, Texas, needed to be rescued after heading into water.
Soaking storms shift east on Friday, with more than 14 million people across parts of the Gulf Coast at risk of severe weather, including damaging winds, hail and possibly tornadoes. Significant swaths of Mississippi and Alabama are under the moderate, Level 3 of 4, risk of excessive rainfall on Friday, while a larger area from the Texas-Louisiana state line to Georgia and the Florida Panhandle is under a Level 2 of 4 risk.
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