Houston Texas News

Brownouts related to Hurricane Laura have left tens of thousands of Entergy customers without power. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — Montgomery County residents should start seeing power restored to their homes soon, according to County Judge Mark Keough. Keough said Entergy has successfully energized its transmission line that was damaged during Hurricane Laura.  “They are safely and slowly bringing the grid back online across the county. We all should start to see power restored shortly if…

Brownouts related to Hurricane Laura have left tens of thousands of Entergy customers without power. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — Montgomery County residents are sweating it out as Eterngy works to repair a transmission line resulting in power outages in the area. The brownouts will take place mainly in the heat of the day when the demand is high and the grid becomes unbalanced, according to Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough. The Montgomery County Office of…

Houston Matters begins at 9 a.m. CT on 88.7FM or listen online. Join the discussion at 713-440-8870, talk@houstonmatters.org or @HoustonMatters. On Friday’s Houston Matters: A chemical plant caught on fire and released chlorine gas in Lousianna just as Hurricane Laura left the region. A similar incident happened during Hurricane Harvey. Can Houston-area refineries survive a direct impact from a hurricane? Also this hour: Dr. Therese Beavers talks to us about the delay in cancer and…

Hours after Hurricane Laura’s landfall, Texans were already on the ground in the neighboring state ready to help. HOUSTON — It’s what neighbors do when there’s a need: lend a helping hand. Outside Lakewood Church in Houston, people dropped off donations and helped pack supplies to send to Louisiana. Hours after Hurricane Laura’s landfall, Texans were already on the ground in the neighboring state ready to help. “There is absolute destruction. It is trees down,…

“It appears the city fared well, as there has been no loss of life and no catastrophic damages reported,” reads a Facebook post by the Port Arthur Police Department. PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Port Arthur city employees are working overtime to survey the wind damage done by Hurricane Laura. The latest update on the situation in Port Arthur comes from a Facebook post uploaded by the police department around noon Thursday. “The Port Arthur Emergency…

Residents are being allowed to return to Galveston County. City residents should check with their local leaders before returning. RELATED: Hurricane Laura makes landfall on Louisiana coast RELATED: What Hurricane Laura looked like when it hit Lake Charles Get the latest out of the Houston area here. THURSDAY UPDATES: 1:50 p.m. Harris County Toll Road Authority will resume toll operations on Harris County toll roads starting Friday, Aug. 28 at 2 a.m. 12:23 p.m. Laura has weakened…

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — There is a widespread power outage in Montgomery County due to Laura. What is now a tropical storm has left thousands who use Entergy without power — including residents in Chambers, Liberty and Walker counties. Montgomery County Precinct 3 Commissioner James Noack said the power outages residents are currently experiencing are called brownouts. Brownouts are necessary to protect the integrity of the unaffected power transmission line. “If this line were to…

HOUSTON — Thankfully, the Houston area was spared from the devastation of Hurricane Laura, but our SE Texas and Louisiana neighbors need our help. You can make a difference by donating $10 to the Red Cross simply by texting LAURA to 90999.  If you’d like to donate more, visit redcross.org/donate or call 800-RED-CROSS.  Ensure your donation helps people affected by Hurricane Laura by choosing that option. Donations enable the Red Cross to help people recover from this…

Laura made landfall just before 1 a.m. Thursday, bringing with it devastating winds to Southeast Texas and Louisiana. We’ve learned a teenage girl has died. HOUSTON — Hurricane Laura made landfall very early Thursday morning. The storm had sustained winds of 150 mph when it hit the southwest Louisiana coast. It landed in Cameron, Louisiana. We’ve now learned a 14-year-old girl in Louisiana is the first reported death in the U.S. directly caused by the storm….

HOUSTON — Residents in western Louisiana received the worst impacts from Hurricane Laura, which was a major Category 4 hurricane at landfall late Wednesday into early Thursday morning. The hurricane brought with it a deadly storm surge and damaging winds, but at this time it appears Texas was spared the worst of the weather. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, the hurricane was downgraded to a Category 1 storm as it moved north and farther inland. Max…

Smoke rises from a burning chemical plant after the passing of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana on August 27, 2020. – Hurricane Laura slammed into the southern US state of Louisiana Thursday and the monster category 4 storm prompted warnings of “unsurvivable” ocean surges and evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said “extremely dangerous” Laura would bring winds of 150 miles per hour (240 kilometers…