2024-07-11 02:11:21
The total number of deaths due to Beryl rose to 15 after the death of five people in USAwhere he entered as hurricanecausing flooding and destruction, but was downgraded to a tropical depression.
In Texas, whose coasts the Hurricane hit early yesterday morningr, two people died when trees fell on their homes, according to a report Ed Gonzalez, sheriff of Harris County, the jurisdiction to which the city of Houston belongs.
The mayor of Houston, John Whitmire, reported two other deaths: one after a fire that could have been caused by lightning and that of a civilian member of the Houston Police who was caught in a flood while going to work.
Meanwhile, in the area of Benton, Louisiana, A resident died after a tree fell on her house during the storm, a local official said.
On your route through the Caribbean Last week the phenomenon had already caused another 10 victims: three in Granada, where it made landfall on Monday; two in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela and two in Jamaica.
Houston, a city of 2.3 million people and the most populous in Texas, received heavy rains and gusty winds. Multiple floods were recorded throughout the city.
Fallen trees on vehicles or blocking roads, flooded roads with trapped cars, fallen power poles, debris and destruction were part of the devastating scene that Beryl left in its wake.
Alerts of tornado were issued for sectors of Texas, Arkansas and Luisiana, which were being deactivated as the storm progressed and lost strength.
Beryl, The hurricane, which began a week ago as a powerful hurricane with winds of 250 km/h, was downgraded to a tropical storm last Friday after making landfall on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, where it caused material damage.
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