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Hurricane Beryl's flooding reaches into inland Texas
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7/9/2024
Storm chaser Aaron Rigsby, who was in Surfside Beach as Beryl arrived with damaging storm surge, highlights flooding caused by the storm in Houston.
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East Texas is at risk for severe weather and you know we've checked in with storm chaser an extreme storm chaser Aaron Rigsby
00:07
Multiple times over the course of this storm from the islands and now into Houston, Texas said Aaron
00:14
You've been with this storm for quite some time. What's the flooding status there in Harris County?
00:21
Yes, good evening Jeff as you can see right here behind me
00:23
This has been a situation all across Houston this morning afternoon and unfortunately into the evening hours
00:28
Right here is just two of over a dozen vehicles stuck on this street alone
00:33
This is the exit 58 at I-45 in downtown, Houston
00:37
This is it's it's remarkable to see a lot of the people still trying to push those limits and drive through this flooded water
00:44
Even with all of these cars sitting here
00:46
No trucks are working their way in to try and keep up with all the cars moving through
00:50
But as you can imagine with this busy Monday evening, it's kind of an impossible task
00:55
Absolutely, Aaron, can you talk us talk to us about what you experienced earlier this morning when the storm made landfall?
01:02
Where were you and what was that like from your perspective?
01:06
Yeah, absolutely
01:07
So I was in Surfside Beach, Texas this morning where we rode out the northeast quadrant of this hurricane
01:12
Which is the most powerful part of the hurricane as far as wind speeds go and we were targeting the storm surge
01:17
Which is exactly what we got and unfortunately it took a really big impact
01:22
Into the city there in the island
01:24
There was multiple homes that were completely destroyed by the winds and those that survived the winds were heavily damaged
01:30
especially in the lower areas by that storm surge in the waves that rolled through and I tell you this hurricane in particular was
01:36
One where it just proves how different it is when a hurricane is intensifying upon landfall versus weakening
01:42
This may have only been a cat one, but it packed a punch with winds well over 90 miles an hour
01:47
We'll wait for NHC to confirm it
01:49
But I'm pretty sure we had winds over a hundred miles an hour or several occasions through that eyewall
01:53
We talked a little bit about that with chief meteorologist Bernie Reno when you and I were on with him on Friday morning
01:59
About sometimes it's about kind of the vector of the storm in terms of is it in a strengthening or a weakening phase?
02:05
We saw this under punch in places like Mexico
02:09
But it may have exceeded its true category one rating in some fashion in some forms in parts of Texas
02:17
There at least with the gusts of wind
02:19
So thanks again for that report there Aaron Aaron Rigsby joining us live from Houston, Texas with the ongoing flood situation
02:25
And Aaron we're going to check back in with you again later on
02:29
I guess that we have lots to talk about here with the flooding and the storm surge and also a lot of power outages here
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