After passing through the Caribbean, Storm Beryl hit Texas on Monday with heavy rains that caused flooding and massive power outages, while killing at least five people in the southern US. Four people were killed in the Houston area, according to the city’s mayor and local police. A municipal police officer died in flooding while trying to get to work, Mayor John Whitmire said, adding that one more person was killed in a fire caused by lightning. Two other deaths linked to falling trees were reported earlier yesterday by local authorities. Further north, in Benton County, Louisiana, a woman died when a tree fell on her home, local police said on Facebook. Beryl, which had previously been classified as a cyclone, killed at least ten people in the Caribbean and Venezuela. When he passed through the Antilles he even reached level 5, the […]
Source: News Beast
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