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  2. 2024 Houston derecho - Wikipedia

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    A brick building occupied by a bar near the intersection of Congress Street and Travis Street suffered the collapse of a wall. The derecho caused extensive damage to transmission lines along with widespread straight line damage and more than a million customers lost power in the Greater Houston area and nearby counties as a result of the high ...

  3. PageNet - Wikipedia

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    PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.

  4. Tornado outbreak of May 6–10, 2024 - Wikipedia

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    High risk convective outlook issued by the Storm Prediction center at 13:00 UTC on May 6 May 6. Starting April 30, the Storm Prediction Center noted that certain models, including the ECMWF, forecasted a multi-day period of high instability and supportive wind shear across the Southern and Central Plains, and by May 1, a 15% risk was added across Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas.

  5. Seven dead after powerful storms slam Houston, Texas - AOL

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    May 17, 2024 at 10:25 PM. Thunderstorms have killed seven people and left more than half a million homes and businesses without power in south-eastern Texas. Residents in the area could be without ...

  6. Texas has seen more than 9,700 tornadoes since 1950 ... - AOL

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    October 26, 2023 at 2:00 PM. Since 1950, there have been more than 9,700 tornadoes in Texas, killing hundreds and leaving behind billions of dollars worth of damage. On March 21, 2022, a tornado ...

  7. Barge slams into Galveston bridge in Texas, causing partial ...

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    May 15, 2024 at 2:39 PM. A barge slammed into a bridge in Galveston on Wednesday, spilling oil into the bay and forcing a shutdown of the Texas span, officials said, in the latest accident ...

  8. 2021 Texas power crisis - Wikipedia

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    The dark patches in the latter image depict areas left without electricity. In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, [6] 13–17, [7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in ...

  9. Texas wildfires: Map of blazes ravaging the Panhandle - AOL

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    Two people are dead after devastating wildfires have burned through more than 1.1 million acres of the Texas Panhandle.. The Smokehouse Creek fire is the largest in state history, according to the ...