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00:00Millions of residents in some parts of the United States of America, U.S.A. may be experiencing
00:04difficulties due to outrage of electricity when Hurricane Barry slammed in as Category
00:081 hit southeast Texas and Louisiana, knocking out power for nearly 3 million people and
00:11killing 8 persons on Monday.
00:13It was gathered that the Hurricane Barry made landfall in the U.S. near the city of Houston,
00:17killing people and knocking out power to millions.
00:19At Harris County, a Houston Police Department employee, Russell Richardson, 54, was said
00:25to have drowned after attempting to drive through high water on his way to work, according
00:29to Houston Police.
00:30Another person died in a house fire that is believed to have been sparked by lightning,
00:34Houston's mayor said, according to BBC reports.
00:37BBC added in its reports that three people were also killed in Montgomery County.
00:42Officials say one man was killed when a tree fell on him while he was driving a tractor,
00:46and two homeless people died when a tree fell on their tent, reports KHOU.
00:50Local reports indicated that estimated 2.3 million customers in Texas were without power
00:54as of Tuesday morning, with some cuts also reported in Louisiana and Arkansas.
00:59CenterPoint Energy, a Texas-based utility provider, has said it plans to restore power
01:03for at least 1 million customers by the end of Wednesday.
01:06The storm also caused major destruction and at least 10 unverified deaths in the Caribbean.
01:11Officials said seven people died in Texas's Harris and Montgomery counties, while one
01:15more fatality was confirmed in neighboring Louisiana.
01:17Barry hit the southern United States on Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane, but it
01:21has since been downgraded to a tropical depression, according to videos posted online on Tuesday
01:26by residents.
01:27Information from FlightWare.com indicated that more than 1,100 flights were canceled
01:31at Houston's Main Airport on Monday following the slamming of the Hurricane Barry.
01:35Hurricane Barry has moved on, but many communities are dealing with damage.
01:39The U.S. Coast Guard took this video of flooding around Sargent, Texas, about 50 miles south
01:44of Houston.
01:45No power since 24 hours due to Hurricane Barry and unlikely to be restored until Wednesday
01:49evening, a resident stated in a post online.
01:52Close watchers said the Hurricane Barry lashed Texas with strong winds and heavy rain on
01:56Monday as it churned inland, forcing the closure of all ports, cancellation of hundreds
02:00of flights and leaving nearly 2 million homes and businesses without power.
02:03burial
02:04The season's earliest Category 5 hurricane on record made landfall near the coastal town
02:08of Matagorda, Texas, according to Reuters.
02:11Sahara protests in its reports captured the Hurricane Barry situation in USA as stated
02:15verbatim below.
02:16The Category 1 storm made landfall on Monday, bringing winds of up to 94 miles per hour
02:21that triggered storm surges, toppled trees, and tore roofs of homes.
02:25Hurricane Barry has claimed at least eight lives, with seven casualties reported in the
02:29greater Houston area and one in Louisiana, U.S.
02:32As the storm moved inland, it spawned tornadoes in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
02:36Cleanup efforts are currently underway, and although burial has weakened into a low-pressure
02:41system, it is expected to bring flash flooding to areas between Arkansas and Illinois on
02:45Tuesday and Wednesday as it moves north-eastward toward Michigan.
02:48In the Houston area, three people were killed by fallen trees, two drowned and one died
02:52in a house fire.
02:54Houston Mayor John Whitemeyer also confirmed a 54-year-old employee of the Houston Police
02:58Department drowned while driving into work.
03:00In Louisiana, a 31-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on her mobile home.
03:05The big effort on Tuesday is to restore power and water to residents.
03:08At 7 a.m., there are still more than 2 million customers without power throughout Texas.
03:13Nearly all of the OTJs are in southeast Texas, where CenterPoint Energy is reporting 1.8
03:18million without power.
03:19CenterPoint says power will be restored to a million of them by the end of tomorrow.
03:23Officials say it will take days to restore power for everyone.
03:26Acting Governor Dan Patrick says the state is sending about 12,000 linemen to the affected
03:30areas.
03:31Be very careful.
03:32Power lines are down and we are sending crews and addressing it.
03:35There is still more flooding.
03:37Do not take this storm as it's past you now, says Patrick.
03:40Maryland landfall at 3.50 a.m. Monday as a Category 1 hurricane near Matagorda, Texas,
03:46about 100 miles southwest of Houston, with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour.
03:51The storm met landfall twice before reaching Texas.
03:53The storm hit the Windward Islands as a Category 4 hurricane on June 29.
03:57It barely avoided Jamaica and the Cayman Islands before making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane
04:01on Mexico's U.K. peninsula.
04:04The volunteers with the group Texans on Mississippi will bring a laundry unit, a chester team
04:07and a mobile mass-feeding kitchen to the Houston area.
04:10At least 11 people were killed on the way across the Caribbean.
04:14The storm became a tropical storm before re-intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico and becoming a hurricane
04:18hours before making landfall in Texas, Sahara Reporter's news report ends in quote.
04:22It was gathered that the port of Corpus Christi was back open by Tuesday morning, but the
04:26Houston Ship Channel, a major point for the import and export of crude oil and refined
04:30products, remains closed.
04:33Texas state and local officials warn it could take several days to restore power after varying
04:37KM ashore as a Category 1 hurricane.
04:39We learned that the fast-moving tempest, which unleashed heavy rains that prompted dozens
04:43of high-water rescues, tended to carve a harsh path over several more states in coming days.
04:48In Texas, the hurricane toppled 10 transmission lines and knocked down trees that took down
04:52power lines.
04:53Observers said that within hours, Hurricane Barry weakened into a tropical storm, far
04:57less powerful than the Category 5 behemoth that tore a deadly path of destruction through
05:01parts of Mexico and the Caribbean last weekend.
05:04But the winds and rains of the fast-moving storm were still powerful enough to knock
05:07down hundreds of trees that had already been teetering in water-saturated earth and strand
05:11dozens of cars on flooded roadways.
05:13As it moved inland, the storm still threatened to spawn tornadoes.
05:16National Hurricane Center said damaging winds and flash flooding would continue as Barry
05:20pushes inland.
05:21A civilian employee of the Houston Police Department was said to have been killed when
05:25he was trapped in floodwaters under a highway overpass, Houston Mayor John Whitemeyer said.
05:30We haven't really slept, said Emma Costancio as she gazed at a large tree that had fallen
05:34across electric lines in her neighborhood in the Houston suburb of Rosenberg.
05:38Costancio, 67, said she had already been without power for several hours and worried that food
05:43in her refrigerator would be spoiled.
05:45We are struggling to have food and losing that food would be difficult, she said.
05:49Houston and Harris County officials said power crews would be sent into the area to restore
05:53service as quickly as possible, an urgent priority for homes also left without air conditioning
05:57in the middle of summer.
05:58Temperatures, which had cooled slightly with the storm, were expected to reach back into
06:03the 90s as early as Tuesday.
06:05The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory that said the area heat index could
06:08reach 105 degrees Fahrenheit, 41 degrees Celsius.
06:12The state will be ready to open cooling centers as well as food and water distribution centers,
06:17said Nim Kid, chief of state emergency operations.
06:21Various rains pounded Houston and other areas of the coast on Monday, reclosing streets
06:25in neighborhoods that had already been washed out by previous storms.
06:28Television stations on Monday broadcast the dramatic rescue of a man who had climbed to
06:32the roof of his pickup truck after it got trapped in fast-flowing waters.
06:35Emergency crews used an extension ladder from a fire truck to drop him a life preserver
06:39and a tether before moving him to dry land.
06:42Houston officials reported at least 25 water rescues by Monday afternoon, mostly for people
06:46with vehicles stuck in floodwaters.
06:48First responders are putting their lives at risk.
06:51That's what they're trained for.
06:52It's working, Houston Mayor John Weitzmeyer said.
06:55Javier Mejia was one of about 20 people who gathered near the pickup truck rescue site
06:59to take pictures of other submerged vehicles sitting on the flooded highway.
07:02If you don't have a way through, you're going to get stuck like that, Mejia said.
07:06Having experienced previous storms in Houston, Mejia stopped up on food and water before
07:11bearing heat, but forgot gas for his portable generator.
07:14He plans to spend the day looking for some.
07:16I don't want it to go bad, he said of the food, adding that if he can't find gas, we
07:21can just fire up the grill.
07:22Many streets and neighborhoods throughout Houston were littered with fallen branches
07:26and other debris.
07:27The bus of Chancel's filled the air Monday afternoon as residents set to work chopping
07:30up knocked-down trees and big branches that had blocked streets and sidewalks.
07:34Patrick warned that flooding could last for days as rain continued to fall on already
07:38saturated ground.
07:39This is not a one-day event, he said.
07:42President Joe Biden was getting regular updates on the storm after it made landfall, the White
07:46House said.
07:47The U.S. Coast Guard and FEMA had prepared search and rescue teams, and FEMA collected
07:51bottled water, meals, tubs and electric generator in case they are needed.
07:55Several companies with refineries or industrial plants in the area reported that the power
07:59disruptions necessitated the flaring of gases at the facilities.
08:02Marathon Petroleum Corp. said it conducted a safe combustion of excess gases at its Galveston
08:07Bay Refinery in Texas City, but did not provide information on the amount of gas flared or
08:12how long it would continue.
08:14Formosa Plastics Corporation and Fremont LNG also reported flaring related to burial, according
08:18to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
08:20Companies have 24 hours to share emissions data after the flaring stops, a representative
08:25from the TCEQ said in an email.
08:28In Louisiana, heavy bands of rain were expected on the Monday end.
08:31The risk is going to be for that heavy rainfall and potential for flash flooding, National
08:35Weather Service meteorologist Donald Jones said in a Monday morning Facebook Live briefing.
08:40The Weather Service in Shreveport issued tornado warnings across northwest Louisiana.
08:43The agency confirmed on social media that multiple tornadoes have been spotted in that
08:47corner of the state.