4 Killed And Thousands Of Power Outages Impacted By Tornadoes In Texas

Illustration of tornadoes. (Pixabay)

JAKARTA - At least four people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes and power outages in Texas as a tornado hit the Houston region.

Citing NBC News, this extreme weather coincided with heavy rains, strong winds accompanied by tornadoes on Thursday, May 16, evening local time.

The head of the Houston Fire Department Samuelwas said that two of the dead were hit by fallen trees, one person had a vehicle accident, and another was not explained the cause of death.

In Harris County, Houston, around 782,000 houses and businesses went out of power at around 01.00 local time. Poweroutage.us reported 880,000 people were affected by the power outage when the tornado occurred.

Meanwhile, throughout the state of Texas, power outages were experienced by around 904,000 customers as of Friday, May 17 morning.

This extreme weather also flooded roads and a number of window windows in city center buildings.

A number of roads that were not submerged were also inaccessible because they were covered in debris, power lines and fallen trees.

Huston Mayor John Whitmire said he had directed the team to help the affected residents. The team has been moving since last night to clean up the debris and make conditions safer.

He said strong winds reached 80-100 miles per hour and asked residents who were still staying at home not to travel.

As a result of this extreme weather, schools in Houston had to be closed.