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Downtown Houston damage: Wall of building collapes; storm blows out windows in skyscrapers
KHOU ^ | May 16, 2024 | Michelle Homer, Jason Miles

Posted on 05/16/2024 9:27:06 PM PDT by texas booster

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"Oh my God! There go the windows," Dave Lewis said. “We had a guy come in off the street, said something landed on his car and cut him, about an eight-inch gash."

Winds were clocked at 80 to 100 mph, according to Whitmire.

"It looks like a tornado to me," Lewis told us.

“It sounded like a train horn – like 10 train horns – like everything we heard from people who lived through tornadoes," Wes Waitkus said.

There were tornado warnings for Harris County but no confirmed tornados.

A wall collapsed on one side of the Conejo Malo bar on Travis Street near Buffalo Bayou. We're told it wasn't open when it happened.

“I never thought I’d see something like this in downtown Houston – it’s spectacular, it really is," Kyle Flick said.

1 posted on 05/16/2024 9:27:06 PM PDT by texas booster
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Texas Ping, the Best State in the USA!

A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.

Please stay careful down in Houston. Lots of rain in DFW but not those crazy winds!

Another special Texas summer edition for your perusal.

As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the Texas Ping list.

Blessings, and stay cool!

2 posted on 05/16/2024 9:28:59 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Possible tornado
Tornado at the Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Houston 5-16-2014
https://rumble.com/v4vole2-tornado-at-the-wells-fargo-plaza-in-downtown-houston.html


3 posted on 05/16/2024 9:33:36 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: texas booster
I have seen some serious straight line winds, but this looks like a small tornado.


4 posted on 05/16/2024 9:33:39 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Sorry to hear they are having trouble down there.


5 posted on 05/16/2024 9:35:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: texas booster

Derecho?


6 posted on 05/16/2024 9:36:12 PM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: Allegra

Getting hit with strong winds from the backside of a thunderstorm will get your attention!


7 posted on 05/16/2024 9:37:29 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Pet peeve rant

It’s not “people” without power it’s Customers

When they say on the news 40,000 people without power it’s the number of outrages not “people”

One house outage (one customer) could mean 5 people

That is all


8 posted on 05/16/2024 9:40:53 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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Agreed.

Losing those high tension power lines is a hard thing to replace quickly.

At Centerpoint can do it (mostly) pretty quickly.


9 posted on 05/16/2024 9:43:12 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Allegra

Derechos are more or less straight line winds that cover many miles and last hours. Tornados can hit and miss quickly.


10 posted on 05/16/2024 9:45:58 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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It took some serious localized negative pressure to suck that facade right off the building. You’re probably right that it took a tornado to do that.


11 posted on 05/16/2024 9:50:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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It looks like an earthquake hit.


12 posted on 05/16/2024 10:00:55 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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Agree in principle, however….
Up here we have a cooperative, so it is members, not customers. Also, there is zero way to count members, but there is an easy way to count meters.


13 posted on 05/16/2024 10:01:40 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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Yep…it was stormy and wild for hours here - got real dark a couple of times, hailed for a few minutes, but this system must have picked up some punch as it made its way to Houston. I’ve checked with all of my friends there -still waiting to hear from a few. One told me that about 50% of the area is without power. Crazy!


14 posted on 05/16/2024 10:08:13 PM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: texas booster

What did Texas do to piss off God? My state should be in shambles.


15 posted on 05/16/2024 10:47:58 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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One of my local radar sources allows me to go back several hours and to pan anywhere there is NWS radar — in this case to just as the storm whacked Houston. It really looks like “merely” a strong line of storms that weakens after hitting Houston, but, I don’t see earlier than that for several hours, so, hard to say.

The part of the line that was NE of Houston, though, in the Beaumont, TX, and Lake St. Charles, LA, area, is another matter. That has held together all the way to New Orleans, and at points has had that bow echo characteristic. I don’t know how much damage it’s done, but that puppy certainly appears to be potent.


16 posted on 05/16/2024 10:58:14 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: texas booster

Definitely. Took out the windows and pressurized the building.


17 posted on 05/16/2024 10:58:25 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: texas booster

I saw pictures of high-tension lines with the towers knocked over, like Godzilla had just walked through them.


18 posted on 05/17/2024 12:00:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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We had one of those come thru Atlanta in 2014 IIRC. It was no fun. Took out power, dropped big trees on the three main roads in / out of my neighborhood. Only way out was a really circuitous route involving about 8 roads to get to a suburban arterial.


19 posted on 05/17/2024 1:07:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: roving

“Mother Nature’s In Charge; We’re Just Along For The Ride.” — Me, 1996


20 posted on 05/17/2024 5:04:24 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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