Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.
Seven people have died in Houston, Texas, and the surrounding county after severe weather that ripped down power lines and trees and toppled brick walls, officials said Friday. Three of the deaths occurred in unincorporated Harris County, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said, and four were in Houston according to officials there. There was an EF-1 tornado with 110 mph winds in Cypress, and Houston saw straight-line winds that peaked at 100 mph, the National Weather Service said.
Two of the four people who died in Houston were killed by falling trees, a third died when a crane blew over, and the circumstances of the fourth were not detailed at a briefing. Houston Mayor John Whitmire said that the city experienced “an exceptionally strong storm.” Both he and Hidalgo signed disaster declarations in the wake of the storms. The declarations allow additional authority and aid. “Houstonians, stay at home tonight. The recovery will go through to tomorrow,” Whitmire said Friday.
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