Deadly Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas

Roughly 2.7 million people were without power in southeastern Texas Monday afternoon as Hurricane Beryl battered the region, according to PowerOutage.us. The storm reached Texas on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center, and brought sustained winds over 70 miles per hour. Heavy rain and flash flooding were forecast throughout the Texas coast, according to the National Weather Service. By Monday afternoon, the weather service said Beryl had weakened to a tropical storm as it continued to move north.

What has the storm’s effect been so far? Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez on Monday said at least one man had died in Texas after a tree fell on a house. By Tuesday morning, the storm was blamed for over a half-dozen deaths in Texas and Louisiana. The storm developed into a Category 5 hurricane in late June and caused at least 11 deaths throughout the Caribbean as it moved west. It brought heavy rains, devastating wind, and flooding to communities in the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Dig deeper: Listen to Kristen Flavin, Mary Muncy, and Paul Butler’s report on The World and Everything in It podcast about this year’s storm season.