Following the devastating storms that swept through the Houston area, leaving a trail of destruction and power outages, residents are now facing challenges related to heat and air quality warnings. As cleanup efforts continue, over 555,000 homes and businesses are still without electricity, down from nearly 1 million at the peak of the outages.
The severe storms on Thursday, accompanied by winds of up to 100 mph and a tornado in the northwest Houston suburb of Cypress, resulted in at least four fatalities in Harris County. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo cautioned that power restoration could take weeks in some areas due to multiple transmission towers being down.
