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.
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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
Sorry to hear they are having trouble down there.
Derecho?
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
What did Texas do to piss off God? My state should be in shambles.
I saw pictures of high-tension lines with the towers knocked over, like Godzilla had just walked through them.
Damage to glass is most often the result of wind born objects striking the building
A very common but dangerous wind borne particle was shown by Texas A&M researchers to be the loose gravel on built up roofs. That research is decades old so the flying articles was likely something else
I remember a similar problem in San Francisco years ago in which windows were just popping out and falling. Tests showed falling glass was extremely dangerous.