Buffalo Bayou floods near Downtown Houston just after Beryl made landfall on Monday, July 8, 2024, in Houston. Tropical Storm Beryl was unleashing heavy rains and powerful winds along the Texas coast, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and flooding streets with fast-rising waters. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP)
- Raquel Natalicchio
A vehicle is stranded in high waters on a flooded highway in Houston, on Monday, July 8, 2024, after Beryl came ashore in Texas as a hurricane and dumped heavy rains along the coast. (AP Photo/Juan A. Lozano)
- Juan Lozano
Winds from Hurricane Beryl ripped the roof from a house in Jamaica Beach, Texas, on Monday, July, 8, 2024. Tropical Storm Beryl was unleashing heavy rains and powerful winds along the Texas coast, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and flooding streets with fast-rising waters. (Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)
- Jennifer Reynolds
Resident Isabel Perez rakes up downed tree branches from the street outside of her home during a lull in the wind and rain as Tropical Storm Beryl passes Monday, July 8, 2024, in Rosenburg, Texas. Hurricane Beryl has been downgraded to a tropical storm after sweeping into Texas as a Category 1 storm with heavy rains and powerful winds. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
- Michael Wyke
A vehicle is stranded in high waters on a flooded highway in Houston, on Monday, July 8, 2024, after Beryl came ashore in Texas as a hurricane and dumped heavy rains along the coast. (AP Photo/Juan A. Lozano)
- Juan Lozano
A vehicle is stranded in high waters on a flooded highway in Houston, on Monday, July 8, 2024, after Beryl came ashore in Texas as a hurricane and dumped heavy rains along the coast. (AP Photo/Juan A. Lozano)
- Juan Lozano
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Julia Guilbeau
Buffalo Bayou floods near Downtown Houston just after Beryl made landfall on Monday, July 8, 2024, in Houston. Tropical Storm Beryl was unleashing heavy rains and powerful winds along the Texas coast, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and flooding streets with fast-rising waters. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP)
- Raquel Natalicchio
A vehicle is stranded in high waters on a flooded highway in Houston, on Monday, July 8, 2024, after Beryl came ashore in Texas as a hurricane and dumped heavy rains along the coast. (AP Photo/Juan A. Lozano)
- Juan Lozano
Residents along the Texas Gulf Coast found themselves in the midst of hurricane-force winds and rising flood waters on Monday as Beryl made landfall along the state's coastline.
Beryl, once again a tropical storm on Monday afternoon, brought flooding rains, damaging winds and storm surge to areas from the coastline inwards past Houston after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Matagorda.
The storm, which has made records as the earliest Category 5 storm to form in the Atlantic, popped up as a tropical wave 13 days ago and has since battered the Windward Islands, Jamaica, Grenada, and parts of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Texans shared photos and videos of the storm's arrival as cities including Galveston and Houston saw significant flooding. More than 2 million people were without power in Houston, according to The Houston Chronicle, and the city's two airports,George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby, were non-operational.
See photos of damage from around the state.
Houston area
— Trace Smith (@Trace_Smith51) July 8, 2024
Major flooding in Houston, TX from Hurricane Beryl. @Killa_Jilla sent me this video from the Heights area. White Oak Bayou is well over its banks. #houston #Beryl #BerylHurricane pic.twitter.com/dE1dDA98OG
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) July 8, 2024
Photos from Downtown Houston at @HCSOJail. Turn Around Don't Drown. #HouNews #HouWX pic.twitter.com/H76VZPfUry
— HCSOTexas (@HCSOTexas) July 8, 2024
📍 South Loop @ Scott St#Beryl storm debris whipped into these power lines @KPRC2 pic.twitter.com/CD3HQHzO1f
— KPRC 2 Bryce Newberry (@KPRC2Bryce) July 8, 2024
Galveston area
— Texas Parks & Wildlife (@TPWDnews) July 8, 2024First look at Hurricane #Beryl damage at #TexasStateParks.
Trees are down in multiple coastal-area parks. Staff will begin cleanup as soon as it’s safe to do so.
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Brazos Bend State Park near Houston
Galveston Island State Park pic.twitter.com/wV6rSO86nS
Damage from Hurricane Beryl in Galveston, TX #beryl #txwx pic.twitter.com/BlifiK5Zee
— Peyton Yager (@peytonyager) July 8, 2024
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) July 8, 2024A tornado associated with hurricane #Beryl ripped through Galveston before sunrise this morning.
Field Meteorologist Brett Adair captured these scenes of a home destroyed as the sun rose. The tornado threat with Beryl will remain elevated today. #TXwx pic.twitter.com/YgzjZinw6S
Coastline areas
A frame condos are destroyed on Surfside Beach after Hurricane Beryl brought destructive storm surge and winds close to 100 MPH!@MyRadarWX #txwx #Hurricane pic.twitter.com/t6oqZF8a9n
— Jordan Hall (@JordanHallWX) July 8, 2024
The inside of just one home here along Beach Drive in Matagorda. Hurricane Beryl caving in the roof. Thankfully this family evacuated. pic.twitter.com/pQ6TbGNcwe
— Gage Goulding - KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) July 8, 2024
Dominator Drone survey of damaged homes, major flooding, and @GulfSar air boats doing rescues and responding to medical emergencies in Sargent, Texas this morning after Hurricane Beryl pic.twitter.com/tQMppxTbYz
— Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerUSA) July 8, 2024
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