Houston weather: Power tower falls over due to severe storms
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- FOX 26's Sherman Desselle is in the Houston area near Highway 290 after a high-voltage power line went down near a neighborhood.
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arent we due to have one of the most active hurricane season ever this year? We havent even started Hurricane season and the whole state is already taking a beating.
I think so. Today was like a hurricane. It flooded too
Always remember that hurricane forecasts are a prediction of the number of storms expected to FORM, NOT anything more than that such as their track and impacts on the USA. Last summer was a great example, as most avoided the USA completely, staying out in the Atlantic.
Enjoy messing with nature 😜
This storm has nothing to do with hurricanes or the way they form.... but I hear what ya saying
Every year is supposed to be the most active for hurricane. We will all know how active at the end of the season. Fear sells and controls people.
Please tell Sherman we appreciate him being out there doing his thang by keeping US informed. Stay safe Sherman!!💯
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Great reporting Sherman 😌
This is why you keep your tank full and extra 5 gallons at the house for vehicle or generator 😊
As if we saw the winds coming-
@@gOat_GrandMabet you only have like 1 case of bottled water too huh
@@gOat_GrandMaare u dumb? You literally are making his point. Keep it full so if something unexpected happens you’re good
Why didn't the NWS issue an EXTREME WIND WARNING for this storm? There were isolated 115+ MPH winds recorded on radar!
I got two alerts on my phone
This all came so fast it was impossible to predict and keep up
Who is saying they did not? You need to be 'in the loop; fist of all to receive such alerts - do you own a weather alert radio? That is a DIRECT line to the NWS. I have a couple radios, just to make sure. Up here in Dallas they have gone live on the NWS radio when we had a tornado a few years back. They broke from regular programming.
@@Froblackistani Not really, you just need to watch the weather over a few of your local NEXRAD towers. When a storm system is passing over a NEXRAD tower it can be energized and turned into a super storm, and if you are anywhere 50-100 nautical miles within that NEXRAD tower then you will get a bad storm. So, just find your local NEXRAD towers and watch the radar over the NEXRAD towers and you will see if storm systems are energized or not...if energized, prepare for a bad storm.
I live in Cedar Rapids, IA and this reminds me of the August 2020 Derecho. That exact type of Transmission Tower collapsed exactly like that, and the manufacturer of the tower was contacted, and that exact tower was made to withstand winds of 140mph. That's how they determined winds of over 140mph hit that particular part of town. Houston was definitely hit by what would be considered a Derecho, if it actually traveled the distance necessary to be considered one.
I concur. There is a video of the RADAR in Doppler mode showing the advancement of this deracho into downtown Houston.
No power near Galleria since 6:30pm until now 😢
Great reporting! Much respect to Sherman, his team and everyone on the Fox 26 Houston news team for staying on top of this and keeping the people informed.
Texas praying for all.
Thank you.
This is why u have to have storage totes full of water, extra food, a generator , 20 gallons of gas and also a portable A/C to plug into generator. Always be prepared no matter what. It happens when least expected.
Those are transmission lines. My cousin works in energy and said it's millions per tower to fix but the bigger cost is interruption. He said lead times on those tower can be 6-12 months and require multiple cranes, helicopters and lineman. This is not an easy fix. If you dont have power now it may be a long time before you do.
Dont belive you in the sense that is gonna be a long time. Yeah it might be millions but is hundreths of millions lost when you don’t fix it
Storm duty is a little different. 6-12 months is likely non emergency lead times. My buddy in contract transmission work for CenterPoint says his longest lead item is CenterPoint’s 2 month notice they need
With that said, could be weeks for sure.
@@mateoleon524 I’m in school to work on power lines. It’ll take a minimum of 1 month to get this fixed. And that’s with people working around the clock.
@@Jay18367 I work for a private transmission company that worked the 2020 Iowa derecho. We have 3 lattice structures exactly the same style and we replaced them all in 2 weeks. Just have to shell out the money for expediting. You can also replace lattice with tubular steel, which is much easier to acquire.
@@tmehaffythere's 4-5 of these down in the same area.
These towers don’t fall. I’m suspecting a lack of inspections and or repair.
Okay, Dunning-Kruger. Do you do brain surgery too?
As we used to say in my old job, “ If you ain’t confused, you must have the day off!” 🤣😜
Y’all helped the lady right??
No, they didn't help her. Women are big girls now. They are boss babes and strong and independent. She handled her business on her own.
Why so bitter? The person should be helped whether man or woman.
My sister said she was caught by a tornado here in the area. Heavy wild winds 😕
Where in Houston? Just got a text from my brother in Spring Branch....major damage from a large tree falling on his house.
@@erinmorrow5001im here in spring branch, and a tree fell on my neighbors house. I had 3 trees fall around my house. Crazy stuff
@@hectors6740 yikes! Thanks for the info....stay safe!
4 people already dead… wild!
Two were killed by trees - what does that say about trees?
Hearts out to the people suffering here. We need a better grid with redundant systems built in.
Thank you for reports
Power tower power lines ?
Im two blocks from here.. no power lotta damage
How long is the power going to be out
Storm season starting early this year. Grew up in La...My Mom told me to always keep my car as close to full as possible for situations like this. We've had to leave in the middle of the night to escape falling trees and power lines. Simple thing but it makes a huge difference in life threatening situations.
We literally had a hurricane today
Rite,or at least a twister,never in my life seen a storm were the sky went that dark
@@AnX8765what we had heavy winds rain, and destruction
@@AnX8765 felt like one
can we please get a time estimate of when we will get power cause i feel like the storm wasn’t even that bad unless you were outside
storm wasn’t that bad? are you retarded
One has to start to think maybe these are signs to get out of Houston?!🤷♀️
Go where?? To moon?
You are funny’s
So you want me to go to Florida-
Exactly, leave…
bye
The weather is all over the place. Where you're gonna run to? It's coming to a state near you soon. None shall escape. Sorry 😞
Im near downtown no power 😢
Why couldn't the crew help the lady without gas? 🤔
Looks like the weather was outraged!! What could it possibly be upset about in that area
Just remember what hurricane Ida did one of those those power towers some like this one took a while to get the power back on my understanding in Louisiana hope it’s gonna be a quick fix for the folks in Houston
The failure of Weather emergency alarm. or Amber alert for Houston area
I got two alerts on my phone
I got it the moment s twister hit my car
U need a new phone
I got like 5 alerts on my phone last night. I think we just don’t get tornados enough to justify tornado sirens
re: "The failure of Weather emergency alarm."
If y'all don't have a real, actual NWS weather alert radio, don't blame the phone or NWS, blame the cell phone company that may have dropped the ball, when traffic from ppl texting and calling each other chokes down the network.
The best option is a battery backed-up NWS alert radio. That is why they make them.
5 stories in my feed of day after day of disasters in Texas Got to wonder whos pissed at Texans
I need a cross street. Is this 290 and 99? That’s the one that I know of that went down. We’re in 77433 and out of power still.
Wow!
A hummer that ran out of gas? Really?
HWY 290 and what exit fool? I swear reporters these days are not very good. When? Why? What? Where?
Your the fool 290 mean the whole 290. 1m gone w no power it's damn near the whole northwest side of htx and I live here and experience it. People are at Walmarts scuffling for chargers
@@DanteTutein you’re a fool too. Where is the fallen tower?
You're talking on the phone too much to run out gas, pay attention to the gas gauge.
Hope they helped the lady out, it’s ugly dark out there….
Yeah i was scared
I don't have audio, I only have reading, but it goes so fast that I can't read it.
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Over here sitting in the dark in cypress
Me too. Cypress n Houston and 290. Blacked out.
y’all ok? :(
Vibing in cypress with no power, but I'm glad I get to suffer with my family
Yep, I’m in Cypress as well. This morning at 3:58 the power came back on, but flickered out again at 4:02 😕
Shermannnnnn
me and my mom and my sister were driving around in pitch black trying to find some service near by but omg guys when I tell you it was so many huge trees in the road and places were damaged and flooded our emergency lights in our apartment complex were even down so at around 4:00 am we got on the road again and we got on the highway and got some gas in the Beaumont areas there’s a Texaco with power and gas I’m praying the power gets back on bc the amount of speeding drives I seen yesterday night without traffic lights it’s very dangerous
Stock up on food, water, batteries, flashlights, etc. The power grid will be turned off for a year or more. Either next year or later on after the rigged elections
Mangle because the metal was already weak
It’s amazing that the power is still out around downtown area. I don’t see power tower falls over that easily even in China, and the power is still out from a storm lasted less than an hr. It’s like we’re living in some third world countries, I don’t know what we actually pay taxes for.
You want to go out and roll your sleeves up to help? Entitled much?
Power crews must first survey the lines that any given distribution main line serves, then the individual lateral circuits that run off that main line ... it is dangerous to life and property to simply trow the breakers back on w/o a damage survey.
@@lucycan6363 PUCT who oversees power companies within Texas is a government agency getting paid by tax payers’ money and everyone who pay taxes are entitled to uninterrupted electricity delivered to their home. I don’t know about you, but I pay my taxes and am entitled to this much.
@@uploadJ I have made no suggestions on repair procedures so I’m not sure why I get a response like this. But the response on repairs were obviously delayed, Texas is only state with more than 7% power outages, almost all other states are under 1 percent. Feel free to look this up online from different resources. Recurring power outages will lower the property values in affected area and as a home owner I have to say something, and I can almost guarantee a class lawsuit will be filed against CenterPoint if not city of Houston.
@@jase298hkhk
That's the problem. Entitlement! 🙄
This is the times Houston finds out how good their infrastructure is.
It’s pitch black in Channelview no power
Same in Baytown
"If you stay ready you don't have to get ready", that was historic. I've always lived by the motto expect the best but prepare for the worst, your analogy is even better 👍
They foreshadowed this just a few weeks ago...I dont believe in coincidence anymore.
explain brother
Still no power 😅
And then ………….
I saw like a comet in the sky to the right of the screen.At 6:30-6:34.Or is probably something else???
Looked like distant lightning
I rewatched it and didn’t see anything lol comet
that was me lighting farts
What's a "power tower" ....jfc
Looks tastie
Dick?
All rusted
Bet the NEXRAD tower didn't fall over....right Sherman?
Republican states don't do infrastructure repair and it shows
Haiti is not Republican...move there and bless everyone who has to currently endure you.
@@jas340 your side lost the civil wsr bozo. Why don't you all kick rocks
Houston is ran by democrats
Lived in the Midwest and on islands in the Pacific.... Been through blizzards, tropical storms, flooding, 100+mph wind storms and multiple hurricanes.. either Texas doesn't maintain their infrastructure and regulate the companies running them or other places build theirs from substantially better equipment.... because I've had more power outages in the last 6 months in Houston than I have in the previous 30 plus years in multiple other states.
@@Afri_Cultureexactly😂 these mfs keep talking about republicans when almost every city in Texas is ran by democrats and it’s not even close
Hope Houston can stay cool today.
Storm aftermath: increased home insurance premiums!
The cheapskates in charge of the utilities in Texas really need to held accountable for their garbage infrastructure. This doesn't happen nearly as often in the rest of the country. Texas politicians really need to start regulating utilities and listening to their constituents. Eventually people will get fed up and start taking matters into their own hands and that will be bad.
They’re actually well built in Houston. The storms that hit in Houston are another level. I’m a lineman that used to work in Houston. Now I’m in California. Y’all’s power lines are brand new compared to California
@@joshuagreen5820 having lived in multiple states that have equally severe weather.... I'm going with "new" doesn't equal quality. I've had more power outages in the last 6 months than I did when I lived in Texas from 04-09. In fact I've had more outages in the past 6 months than I did in nearly the preview 40 plus years of my life. It is no secret that the utility companies here are privately owned and predominantly unregulated, Texas actually takes pride in that, every time it rains we have outages. Every time there's wind we have outages... Cold weather.... outages. Hot weather.... outages.. you can actually look up independent reviews of the quality and maintenance levels of Texas utilities and they are far below the average for the US. I paid the same rates per Kw in Hawaii with 100 times better service. In 13 years I had 2 power outages and both were resolved within 8 hours. This is the third 24 hour outage in 6 months. They need to stop paying 37 million dollar salaries and start investing in a better grid and support systems. Lobbying and privatizing have destroyed a majority of infrastructure in the US and voters are getting really tired of it
OHHH please just stop with the garbage spewing..
@@joshuagreen5820 and if by "brand-new" you mean 20 plus years old, above ground, uninsulated and surrounded by unkempt trees I'd say seek mental evaluation.
@lunchboxs197
When you live your life by politics, you're destined to be unhappy.
Bet ted cruz is in cancun
Or his area will be fixed first
@@elizabethbarker3216 cancun?
He was on the Joe Pags radio show earlier today.
@@caddothegreat Prerecorded
Money for Israel & Ukraine but US infrastructure is crumbling smh
Talk to your Republican leaders they voted it down
‘join me in Cancun’' Ted Cruz
That’s why I prefer to be in California paying more taxes 😂
Earthquakes? And when it rains there it floods bad
You Dems are hysterical
and getting to hang with Travolta
Go back!
lol go then
End of the world blow it out of proportion
You think those power lines will be replaced soon? It’s going to be months
Because apparently they are made of twigs, this is a daily occurrence in Houston. I've lived everywhere and Houston is by far the worst when it comes to thia stuff, and don't give me bad weather gimme a break. Nice story
120mph wind fucktard, how's that not bad weather?
How many times I godda tell ya… ain’t nuthin getting better for ya , Talkin to Texas 😂😂😂 better hope tha jack boys don’t get any bright ideas 💡🫡🥳
Just like every where else try unboxing your dead brain cells..
is hard to understand your comment bro
Like an earthquake had gone off! Seriously, ignorance is bliss.
Don't panic. Cancun Ted Cruz must be on it !!
Can we have journalism without the dramatization?
Shaq?
290 and WHAT EXIT?? Damn talk about useless reporting. I have family in NW Houston. How about some factual information?? So all you are saying is it’s near a ChickfilA …just lazy stupid journalism.
Right on Dacoma and mangum
Now we'll get reports of who's out of gas and who's got dead battery great news coverage
He just informing us what condition u may be in if you get on the road
DEI hires at work. Great job!
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Sounded like an earthquake went off? Okay............