2024-05-16 Houston Derecho

On the 16th of May, 2024, the Houston area and the greater gulf coast were hit by a rapidly moving and very violent storm, now named the "2024 Houston Derecho" by the National Weather Service. This storm arrived largely unexpected with few weather forecasts mentioning the possibility of an event this severe.
wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Houst...
These are my dashcam videos of the event. My usual 10 minutes commute became a 45 minute ordeal. I've increased the playback speed of several sections to 4 times usual and trimmed out the beginning and ends to make this video a more watchable ~16 minutes.
Recorded on a VIOFO A129 Pro and edited in DaVinci Resolve. Radio program was KPFT's Progressive Forum hosted by Wally James interviewing Thom Hartmann. The GPS-corrected clock in the dashcam is somehow set to UTC+4. I don't know why. This all happened at 6PM local time.

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  • @XanaxDust214
    @XanaxDust214Ай бұрын

    "The person on the motorcycle is about to have a really bad evening." Understatement of the year

  • @kellyclarke8754

    @kellyclarke8754

    Ай бұрын

    Yes. I was caught in something like this on my motorcycle. Within 5 minutes it went from sunshine to deluge. I was in full gear.

  • @hansonel

    @hansonel

    Ай бұрын

    I hope they got off the highway and sought shelter somewhere. Dangerous being caught in 100+ mph winds like that.

  • @texasbassranger

    @texasbassranger

    Ай бұрын

    I've ridden motorcycles up to turning 65, then had the sense enough to sell them and keep all my appendages intact. I got caught a couple of times in an Arizona monsoon rain and it fouled my engine every time. Took hours to dry out. Had to have someone come and get me then go back for my bike he next day. Most often than not, it would turn over and start then. I hope that poor guy found at least a gas station canopy.

  • @kellyclarke8754

    @kellyclarke8754

    Ай бұрын

    I saw a guy riding a motorcycle during hurricane Ike back in 2008.

  • @40stefanie

    @40stefanie

    Ай бұрын

    He was probably the easiest to be able to get off the road and get shelter

  • @philliplopez8745
    @philliplopez8745Ай бұрын

    Instead of 90% humidity, it is 90% liquidity

  • @bethmoore7722

    @bethmoore7722

    Ай бұрын

    I have decided that cosmetic surgeons need to equip us all with gills. I live about 30mi south of Houston, and some days, it’s like breathing water here. Water, and toxins from the refineries & chemical plants.

  • @joemartin480
    @joemartin480Ай бұрын

    I’m a mailman from Katy, and was in the frontlines on this storm! I saw it coming and tried to finish fast, I had 2 more boxes left so I was outside in the storm for like 20 minutes! I got all my mail and packages delivered.

  • @mraBJJ33

    @mraBJJ33

    Ай бұрын

    Either rain sleet or snow right?!?

  • @joemartin480

    @joemartin480

    Ай бұрын

    @@mraBJJ33 you can count on me when I’m delivering your mail.

  • @joemartin480

    @joemartin480

    28 күн бұрын

    @@mraBJJ33 you can count on me!

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    17 күн бұрын

    @@mraBJJ33lol you beat me to it! But I gotta say, well done, mailman from Katy!

  • @joemartin480

    @joemartin480

    16 күн бұрын

    @@BeeWhistler you can count on me when I’m your mail man!

  • @grenade0522
    @grenade0522Ай бұрын

    The radio cutting out is when you know it's gettin REAL

  • @DubBeats

    @DubBeats

    Ай бұрын

    I listen too 97.9 the box they didn’t do no commercial they just play music in they kept on cutting off but they say they had a generator…

  • @MrPhotodoc
    @MrPhotodocАй бұрын

    A derecho is nature's wash cycle and a twister is the spin cycle.

  • @bssaassin1900

    @bssaassin1900

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @donizettirules

    @donizettirules

    Ай бұрын

    Dude, this comment is definitely under rated!

  • @LouSlade

    @LouSlade

    Ай бұрын

    This is going to live in my brain forever

  • @fakename287

    @fakename287

    Ай бұрын

    And with the 90+ weather 5 days later? Looks like Houston got the full laundromat treatment 😂

  • @corvid.undead

    @corvid.undead

    Ай бұрын

    What does that make us 🥲

  • @catskewl
    @catskewlАй бұрын

    This video deserves a major award! 🏆 It had it all. Excellent writing, suspense, pathos, whimsical humour apocalyptic dread. Just a masterpiece.

  • @Sabbathissaturday

    @Sabbathissaturday

    Ай бұрын

    I totally agree!

  • @suehowie152

    @suehowie152

    Ай бұрын

    Agreed..

  • @JoeyMcSmokey

    @JoeyMcSmokey

    Ай бұрын

    Agree.

  • @rrobertsnot5150

    @rrobertsnot5150

    Ай бұрын

    I disagree

  • @suehowie152

    @suehowie152

    Ай бұрын

    @@rrobertsnot5150 Oh well..

  • @bpraheem
    @bpraheemАй бұрын

    I was coming from Katy when the tornado warning went off on my phone. I tried to outrun it and didn't do very well. The storm caught me. It may have been one of the crazy experiences I have had as a grown-up and living in Houston. This video shows the experience very well. I was waiting for the Tornado, little did I realize the straight line winds were just as powerful. Glad to make it home.

  • @splatterkat3838
    @splatterkat3838Ай бұрын

    As a fellow Houstonian, I have to thank you for NOT just staying on the left hand lane 😂

  • @nikkidodd2305

    @nikkidodd2305

    Ай бұрын

    😅

  • @HoustonHoney
    @HoustonHoneyАй бұрын

    My son got caught in this, leaving work. He took shelter in a convenience store. The employees pulled down the aluminum shutter to protect the doors from shattering. And you KNOW it is bad when Houston drivers slow down. We get 52” of rain a year, many nasty storms, so we are used to driving in it. This was on a whole other level.

  • @bellafairy4u

    @bellafairy4u

    Ай бұрын

    I am from South East Alaska I live on an island that’s a rainforest and we get 199 ‘ of rain a year one time it was 212 ‘ of rain it rained all damn summer I was 17 and our island is set up like a funnel if they say 60mph gusts of wind we locals tack on about another 20 and I drive for a living and driving 12 hours a day in nasty nasty weather 😂 I measure my rain like you all measure your hurricanes 😅

  • @katherinehall1967

    @katherinehall1967

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah 52" in a commute!

  • @skyvrr

    @skyvrr

    Ай бұрын

    i live in west texas and the same day eithee this storm or another storm my hometown

  • @fghyjhku

    @fghyjhku

    Ай бұрын

    I’m glad he is safe

  • @noisepuppet

    @noisepuppet

    Ай бұрын

    South Louisiana, pretty much the same climate, when there's a deluge like this, and everyone's pulled over or creeping along with hazards on, because visibility is somehow less than zero, there's always that one clown who goes zipping by at speed limit +20. They must figure it's safer to get through foul weather at max speed so you spend the least time possible in it.

  • @rebeccacollins3231
    @rebeccacollins3231Ай бұрын

    I love your sense of humor. Hope the person on the motorcycle is okay

  • @FeatheredDreamStudio

    @FeatheredDreamStudio

    Ай бұрын

    Wait….there was a motorcycle?? Omg….

  • @drea409

    @drea409

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@FeatheredDreamStudioyes, you can see them at 0:52. There is commentary about them along the bottom of the screen. I don't think we see them again during the storm but there's practically no way they got home before the storm hit. Hopefully they found shelter in a store or restaurant

  • @maria-melek

    @maria-melek

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@drea409I'd stop and beg a car to take me in. Id in no way stay on that motorcycle 😭

  • @marcenalamb7294
    @marcenalamb7294Ай бұрын

    Green skies always mean high winds. Thx for sharing the video. Be safe.

  • @vinny4411

    @vinny4411

    Ай бұрын

    Usually indicates tornado about to drop, and hail

  • @mraBJJ33

    @mraBJJ33

    Ай бұрын

    Just means strong thunderstorms usually in the later afternoon when the sun is low, doesn't always indicate high winds and doesn't always indicate tornadoes. Those two are just heavily associated with strong thunderstorms

  • @dalesmth1
    @dalesmth1Ай бұрын

    I live close to Gessner and Clay Rd., and there were no warnings. No notices, no rain, no hail, nothing. I saw the radar, and was about five seconds from moving my new car, and the wind hit. It literally went from 5 mph to over 100 mph in a few seconds.

  • @denisweimer8791

    @denisweimer8791

    Ай бұрын

    Same here at Barker-Cypress and Clay. One minute I'm trying to put birdseed in the feeder on one of my trees, the next minute it's the end of the world, and a few minutes later, the tree was somewhere else. The only up-side is that if we have another one of those winter freezes this year, I got the firewood thing covered.

  • @NA-kp1lk
    @NA-kp1lkАй бұрын

    My sister got caught in this storm coming home from work. We couldn't reach her because of bad signal. A series of events happened on the way. One which was a tree falling in front of her causing her to swirve. She managed to get home to another scene of fallen trees sheds and trampolines on the middle of her street. She's always been the strong one that nothing gets her but she got home crying uncontrolably. She felt that was it for her. This was so much scarier than any hurricane weve been in.

  • @Summertyme75

    @Summertyme75

    Ай бұрын

    I think this one was so much scarier because it was unexpected. Houstonians know how to hunker down when we get hurricane warnings. When city officials tell us to skip work and stay off the roads, most heed the warnings. This many people would not have been on the roads when storms are incoming, under normal storm prep circumstances. This was insane. I'm glad your sister made it home safe, im sure this was traumatizing

  • @NA-kp1lk

    @NA-kp1lk

    Ай бұрын

    @@Summertyme75 Thanks and if you are in Houston I hope you and your loved one's are safe as well. I was home at the time and saw an alert for my parents area which was near townlake. We had a really bad gust of wind that blew our bbq pit about 10 feet off the platform. I remember running screaming because with that I heard the roar. The same roar we heard the day the firestone got destroyed in katy. My mom calls that same moment to tell me they were in the bathroom in case anything happened but nothing compared to not knowing about my sisters location and if she was ok. We were terrified.

  • @John-ct9zs

    @John-ct9zs

    Ай бұрын

    I nearly got caught in this derecho too. But I saw where the storm was headed on my storm radar app in my phone as I was about to leave work going back to Katy, and I was like screw that. No way I can beat this storm home, I'll be driving right into it. Even if it was coming from the east or southeast out of the gulf, with that much traffic it would be hard to outrun. So I just stayed at work and rode it out until about 7:15 pm. When I left, wow, it was hurricane/tornado level damage all over from the medical center to Katy and Cypress.

  • @thegamingchef3304

    @thegamingchef3304

    Ай бұрын

    Tree falling in front of her? Her swerving? Are we sure the sister isn't making this Hollywood story up?

  • @NA-kp1lk

    @NA-kp1lk

    Ай бұрын

    @@thegamingchef3304 I'm only sharing her story. I don't care who believes or not. I'm just glad she's ok. It happened to many that day some survived some didn't. One thing I know about her since she was a little girl is she would tell the truth no matter how much trouble she would get in. She was crying to the point she could hardly breath and yes she did go back and took pictures and showed us the next day. As we speak she is now without power fixing her entire fence and dealing with her neighbors about their trees. This event was very real and there's others that had worst stories and lived to tell including my parents who live where a tornado hit. Yes, sometimes hollywood movies become real life. Just ask people north of Texas. How offensive for people to question if they actually went through something like this.

  • @vancouverislandandthething3945
    @vancouverislandandthething3945Ай бұрын

    I came for the derecho and stayed for the fonts. Haven't even made it half way through but you had me at well done rain then cooked me to completion when you followed it up with just... heavy rain. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @WoodstockNation

    @WoodstockNation

    Ай бұрын

    It was the "medium well rain" for me 😭🤣

  • @NixyRumancek

    @NixyRumancek

    Ай бұрын

    “It’s just a big box of rain. I don’t know who put it there. Believe it if you need it. Or eat it if you dare.” This is going in my sketchbook. I usually draw out images from each storm to go with my WX/storm surveys and logs, but I might just do a page on the derecho and only have it be the view from a car with blurry, watercolour rain on the windscreen, and these amazing captions 😂

  • @guywebster8018
    @guywebster8018Ай бұрын

    My experience was horrific. I was north of carmine. Caught in the inflow of a tornado. Trees were sideways. The car felt like it was about to be flung. Debris. The rain was literally sideways. I was on my way to the store thinking I had time before the rain hit. Boy was I wrong. When I reached the store I got the tornado warning. Then the power went out at the store thats when I saw a monster. The side wall of that thing. When it passed I figured heck Ibetter get to the ranch. Bid mistake because again. Caught in the inflow. When I got back to the ranch it had water damage on the north wall because the rain and wind just overtook that house. I was cleaning water rest of the night. Crazy storm

  • @42killac

    @42killac

    Ай бұрын

    Glad you made it out alive

  • @vickykirby908
    @vickykirby908Ай бұрын

    I love the calmness and humor in your commentary. Excellent footage!

  • @zeroshepard9513
    @zeroshepard9513Ай бұрын

    Thats why I want to quit trucking. I love trucking, but I dont get paid enough to deal with this endless violent weather. I just get disrespected and lied to by a bunch of people who dont know what we have to deal with everyday "moving america". Glad you all kept the shiny sides up. That storm was none too fun when it got over here to georgia. I hate this weather. Cant sleep in my truck at night when it rains anymore.

  • @MzAliH21

    @MzAliH21

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you for your hard work! You road warriors don't get enough appreciation. 🙌🏽 STAY SAFE

  • @MrsHall38

    @MrsHall38

    Ай бұрын

    May God always bless you on your travels. May He protect you always ❤❤

  • @KristyW72

    @KristyW72

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you for all your hard work. I've had a couple of trucker friends. They've said the same. I appreciate all you guys do. GOD bless you and keep you safe.

  • @texasbassranger

    @texasbassranger

    Ай бұрын

    Ditto. I finally crawled down from my truck and walked away. I am not an owner/operator, so I was pretty much at the mercy of the cartage company that hired me. They didn't care. On a run from Austin to College Station, there were tornado warnings throughout the night, and I told them it wasn't safe. I ended up with a trailer blown off and over and it completely wrecked my coupler bed and hydrolics and it cost them a fortune to get that truck recovered. Not to mention the eight stitches in my forehead from blown out glass. I tried to tell them, but no one listened. That was my last run.

  • @twinsterdude1186

    @twinsterdude1186

    Ай бұрын

    Wow, that is sad. All that hard work u put in to help transport goods around America and you get hated on for getting stuck in storms. #stophatingontruckers

  • @marleyboy7732
    @marleyboy7732Ай бұрын

    Houston is definitely one city you dont want to drive through when it rains. Lots of fools who drive even faster & crazier when it starts pouring. What a nut town.

  • @Jeep-Life

    @Jeep-Life

    Ай бұрын

    The worst place I've ever driven is Atlanta. And when I go through Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio its after midnight!

  • @vickymizell2443

    @vickymizell2443

    Ай бұрын

    I’m a 69 yo native Houstonian and I absolutely agree!! I remember when all the major freeways were built. There are some crazy MF drivers here! We’ve had a shot ton of “visitors” from down south who drive without a license too!!

  • @MrPhotodoc

    @MrPhotodoc

    Ай бұрын

    Chicago is worse.

  • @angelasanchez8610

    @angelasanchez8610

    Ай бұрын

    Not only in houston but also here in DALLAS……

  • @queenb67

    @queenb67

    Ай бұрын

    Dallas and Austin are worse, especially Austin. All signs and striping are just suggestions.

  • @odellfromdassipp
    @odellfromdassippАй бұрын

    4 days later and THOUSANDS without power, schools closed, debris still present everywhere you look,, the clean up continues downtown and many intersections have traffic signals that are down. That was a bad mamma jamma

  • @NixyRumancek
    @NixyRumancekАй бұрын

    Double commenting because I can. Not sure if you regularly post storm related content but your captions had me absolutely rolling “Eat it if you dare” and I feel like, sometimes, the storm chaser (or just those individuals stuck in a storm) community needs that kinda humour. Those captions were the best thing. I’m sure everyone around you was shitting enough bricks to build a storm shelter by the power lines but you’re just sassing this storm out 😂 I needed this today.

  • @jstragland
    @jstraglandАй бұрын

    This storm got out of control way too quick. Most people were completely caught off guard.

  • @drea409

    @drea409

    Ай бұрын

    Definitely. And the thing is, we get tornado warnings relatively frequently, but in 16 years of living here, they've never been followed by a actual tornado. Very very rarely are they even followed by a storm. I don't blame people for ignoring them, though I do at least stay paying attention to the sky when I get them, personally

  • @blackspider9561

    @blackspider9561

    Ай бұрын

    Thankfully, I was at home

  • @quitepossiblylucky

    @quitepossiblylucky

    Ай бұрын

    This storm passed over us in North Austin (Pflugerville). The winds were crazy and I had never heard my house slammed so hard by winds before. Luckily the winds were nothing compared to how strong they got in Houston. Houston must've really pissed off the storm. lol

  • @JOKERSLADY713

    @JOKERSLADY713

    Ай бұрын

    Exactly😳, my daughter and I were picking up dinner at a Panda Express in Southwest area and I remember the alerts going off on our phones and we were all like what's going on... It would read "Seek shelter immediately on a lower level, 80 mph winds". Next thing we know on the drive home it went from a cloudy moment to dark as night 😲

  • @burtcooper612

    @burtcooper612

    Ай бұрын

    "Most people were caught completely off guard"...that`s what`s going to happen when Jesus comes back.

  • @jenlpoc1839
    @jenlpoc1839Ай бұрын

    Best video I've seen so far of it rolling in. Man any of those power polls could have gone flying at any minute. I was holding my breath

  • @John-ct9zs

    @John-ct9zs

    Ай бұрын

    I was thinking the same. Perhaps it would have been best to stay on the freeway/highway and just pull off on the shoulder instead of getting on to the service/feeder road where all those power lines are.

  • @jeniromero1949

    @jeniromero1949

    Ай бұрын

    Love your sense of humor, the midst of the storm... 😂 nice video. Glad you made it through it 🙌

  • @barbaravyse660
    @barbaravyse660Ай бұрын

    We had one of these in the DC area about 10 years ago. I had never heard of a derecho. It happened on a Friday night just after 10pm. My cats came running upstairs to tell me something was happening and then ran under the bed. That’s when the storm started. It knocked down huge old trees and the power in a lot of places.

  • @maryannplummer9663

    @maryannplummer9663

    Ай бұрын

    I remember that. A friend lived in Bethesda and had a tree fall into their bedroom.

  • @hermanuslemmer1695

    @hermanuslemmer1695

    21 күн бұрын

    Friday, June 29, 2012. The derecho came at 9:30 P.M. I watched it from my car at Target in Gainesville, VA. The wind was incredible. A few small trees fell over. Others had the top halves of their leaves sheared off. There were limbs down on the road. The railroad crossing gate on U.S. 29 before Route 66 was blown skew (and replaced two years later with a bridge). A construction drum stood in the middle of the road. The grills on display at Lowe’s had been blown into disarray. One had fallen on its face, and some of the others piled on top of one another. Only one stood.

  • @sealestiale
    @sealestialeАй бұрын

    my humor is completely broken, why did “medium-well rain” make me laugh so hard

  • @smoklhoe
    @smoklhoeАй бұрын

    It gives anxiety just watching it from the comfort of my home, let alone driving through it 😞 My prayers to anyone affected by this tragedy 🙏

  • @bryanmckinney5639

    @bryanmckinney5639

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @kristiholder8505

    @kristiholder8505

    Ай бұрын

    I was on the top floor of a short 4 fl office building when the tornado warnings came through, and within a few minutes the electricity went out. We all went down the stairs. We ended up having to wait out the storm in the stairwell because the doors leading out were shaking back and forth, large debris was flying past the building outside, a couple of the doors were blocked, and there was broken glass on the floor in the lobby. While we were still upstairs, it sounded like someone was hitting the side of the building with an enormously giant bat and it was reverberating throughout the entire building. (I'm assuming it was wind sheers hitting the side of the building.) It was definitely crazy. On the way home, large limbs were blocking the path to the streets to get out of the parking lot, and very several large trees fell on top of houses near where I was.

  • @canu2-dk6lw
    @canu2-dk6lwАй бұрын

    Moving to Texas? Watch the weather radar several times a day every day, watch at least 3 forecasts from 3 different sources, look up frequently.

  • @Sabbathissaturday

    @Sabbathissaturday

    Ай бұрын

    Amen lol

  • @queenb67

    @queenb67

    Ай бұрын

    You're not even kidding. I have at least 3 and actually bought weather radio this year.

  • @garden-queen2393

    @garden-queen2393

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂

  • @Catwoman97

    @Catwoman97

    Ай бұрын

    This is why I often find myself watching The Weather Channel or my local weather forecast often! I am always obsessed with the weather in Texas being born and raised here my whole life!😅

  • @vickiclark8729

    @vickiclark8729

    Ай бұрын

    This is the way!

  • @Kyle-gb9dq
    @Kyle-gb9dqАй бұрын

    Watching this as severe weather is hitting us rn. Stay safe and weather aware everyone. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 When the sky turns green, it's about to get mean

  • @S0RGEx
    @S0RGExАй бұрын

    I was at work in a warehouse not too far from where you were driving in the beginning, had to shelter in place for about an hour because of the tornado warning. The backup generators came on and we went back to work afterwards, fortunately, but I was just worried about my cat back at my apartment. Thankfully, everything was all good. Just glad I wasn't out in that nasty weather.

  • @araneasmith
    @araneasmithАй бұрын

    Hope that person on the motorbike got through all this okay. JESUS.

  • @Redmist-se7ld

    @Redmist-se7ld

    Ай бұрын

    I would’ve stayed under an overpass wait for the storm to pass

  • @araneasmith

    @araneasmith

    Ай бұрын

    @@Redmist-se7ld I might do the same, but I don't know how safe it would be if there was an actual tornado. I've heard of people getting injured or killed when sheltering under them...

  • @alexlevingston

    @alexlevingston

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@araneasmithYep, your right. People have gotten killed under overpasses by violent tornadoes.

  • @GamerplusMore

    @GamerplusMore

    Ай бұрын

    Houston drivers are a bigger threat to him day in and out anyways

  • @araneasmith

    @araneasmith

    Ай бұрын

    @@GamerplusMore LOL, so I've heard...

  • @jagpilotohio
    @jagpilotohioАй бұрын

    Drinking my morning coffee with some anxiety watching this. 😳 Very unpleasant.

  • @4xdblack
    @4xdblackАй бұрын

    I was once in a storm like this. A big truck like yours is what saved me. I stuck to the truck like glue and let his better view guide me.

  • @JMONEYRUNS
    @JMONEYRUNSАй бұрын

    I yelled at my mom that day. She is a work ahloic, she was in he office at the time and j saw the warning and told her "if you hear or feel anything, let me know" she said "yeah yeah okay." later j started getting worried cause the lights ha flickered and I heard rain, I looked out if the window and it was so windy and blurry I assumed that we were already in the tornado. I yelled at my mom saying she needs time focus more on safety than money. She asked me "what do you want me time do?!" my response was "gather us! Shelter us!" (us is my dog, me, and my mom) we heard my dog crying downstairs so we went to go get him(he was in his kennel) we hid in a hallway with him. I could tell he was scared too cause he was whining so bad. I started shaking because I have never been in a tornado before and I tried calling my dad because hes my comfort parent, but the signal wasn't working at all. So my mom tried calming me down but it didn't work to well. Later when it was done we checked our backyard and we have a free trampoline. And tree. Please stay safe everyone!

  • @user-wi9hv2pb2q

    @user-wi9hv2pb2q

    Ай бұрын

    free trampoline is how you know god loves you lol. hope your mom lets you keep it.

  • @JMONEYRUNS

    @JMONEYRUNS

    Ай бұрын

    Ehhh I kind hope so. But at the same time it's umm.. A little messed up😓 maybe we can get it fixed 😅

  • @DarthVader-1701

    @DarthVader-1701

    Ай бұрын

    The dog could sense the Tornado.

  • @JMONEYRUNS

    @JMONEYRUNS

    Ай бұрын

    @@DarthVader-1701 I’m sure it wasn’t just that but also him hearing it!

  • @MrsHall38
    @MrsHall38Ай бұрын

    When Southeast Ohio got hit in 2012 with a derecho, we had no idea it was gonna be like it was. They say in a tornado you can hear a train, well during a derecho, you can feel the train under your feet... We had a 30 percent chance of storms that day... It was crazy...

  • @susanterry4276

    @susanterry4276

    Ай бұрын

    I live in Northern Virginia - near Dulles airport - and it hit us around 10pm and we had no idea it was coming! And back then no one had ever heard of a derecho before, and we lost power for about 4 days with temps during the day in the 90s. Brutal!

  • @user-ly3jr6bm6h

    @user-ly3jr6bm6h

    Ай бұрын

    We had one in VA in 2011. A lot of damage.

  • @EnterTheLang

    @EnterTheLang

    Ай бұрын

    I’m from & live in Baltimore…I remember the night that derecho went thru our area. It was gnarly! I remember my uncle’s area being out of power for upwards of 2 weeks…so many trees down all over!

  • @DottieWoods-um7ox

    @DottieWoods-um7ox

    Ай бұрын

    We were out of power for 5 days and lost food. Could have been worse. Tree damage too in the woods with heavy rainfall. This was in SW Va Blacksburg.

  • @Susie_Floozie

    @Susie_Floozie

    Ай бұрын

    I was driving to a week-long campout in Eastern Ohio at that time and just missed the main storm. We were nearing our destination when we saw some big trees lying in a field. I thought it was someone's manic land-clearing project--but when we saw more trees down, I noticed the leaves were still green, indicating fresh mayhem. Then we drove past a Walmart...and ITS PARKING LOT WAS EMPTY. That's when we began to freak over what kind of apocalypse we'd just driven into. More derecho winds blew through the campground--I was inside my tent holding the frame so it wouldn't blow away. It was exhilarating, jumping around like a crazy monkey cursing Nature!

  • @chrisradano
    @chrisradanoАй бұрын

    It's scary to hear the "roaring engine" noise as the storm gets closer the noise gets louder, and the sky gets darker. Then the exploding transformers and the lights go out as far as you can see...and that's before the worst of the storm even hits....

  • @queueeeee9000

    @queueeeee9000

    Ай бұрын

    My dog is terrified of thunder and storms. I had to take him with me to our bathroom in the inner most safest part of our home. The winds howling through the chimney, lights suddenly going out, and thunder crashing every 1.5 seconds. There was lots of howling and shivering, to say the least.

  • @fudgenuggets405

    @fudgenuggets405

    Ай бұрын

    @@queueeeee9000 but how did your dog react?

  • @queueeeee9000

    @queueeeee9000

    Ай бұрын

    @@fudgenuggets405 haha 🤣 touche

  • @sheawooley8605

    @sheawooley8605

    Ай бұрын

    @@queueeeee9000my dog was so curious about all the whistling that he didn’t seem all that bothered. 😂😂 my cats would NOT recommend the experience again.

  • @commandershepard4471
    @commandershepard4471Ай бұрын

    I was at the Stros game during this. Everyone was crowding around the doors looking outside. It was raining through Minute Maid’s roof.

  • @fishingfreak9734
    @fishingfreak9734Ай бұрын

    Thanks Andy for a great video. I live near Longenbough and Greenhouse Roads...so the main storms went between your location on Hwy 290 and my house while you recorded this, The tornado path hit about 1.5 miles North of my house, but I think there were several twisters. I'm from Houston and this was the most terrified I have ever been during a weather event. I got home from work by 5 pm, shortly after 6:30 pm it had passed, all of my neighbors were then out in the street recollecting what just happened. I'm a weather geek, the warnings went off and my wife had herself and our two chihuahuas in the bathtub while I made some last second prep and joined them. Our power was off at my home for around 82 hours, three nights. It's been six days now and they're still working on getting all of the power restored....including at my office on FM 529 near N. Eldridge. Thx again for taking the time to make this video!!!

  • @MzAliH21
    @MzAliH21Ай бұрын

    Damn yall dont let nobody over 😂 i see why the radio man said yall have road rage haha all jokes aside glad no one was hurt. Thanks for the footage!! Bless yall chasers! 🙌🏽

  • @daphnea5447

    @daphnea5447

    Ай бұрын

    This video is a rare instance of good Houston driving to be honest. On a normal day about 15% of the road is full of homicidal idiots and about 50% more who are angry fast drivers.

  • @Summertyme75

    @Summertyme75

    Ай бұрын

    yeah we were humbled that day. mother nature's road rage trumped all

  • @melissas4874

    @melissas4874

    Ай бұрын

    This is why I gladly accepted the offer to work from home after covid. Otherwise I just take a bus to work because people here have their ego attached to whether someone else gets in front of them.

  • @herbwitch5681

    @herbwitch5681

    Ай бұрын

    A turn signal in Houston is a bald-faced challenge.

  • @grmpEqweer

    @grmpEqweer

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@herbwitch5681 Never let the enemy know what you're doing.

  • @John-ct9zs
    @John-ct9zsАй бұрын

    I was nearly caught in this on the road when I was leaving work at 6pm. Then I looked at my radar app on my phone and saw I would be driving straight into the derecho storm and figured what's the point. I just stayed at work and stood way back from the windows and glass doors. It looked like a small hurricane or even tornado out there, the way the wind was whipping the rain around and lighting keep lighting up the sky. There had to be at least 2 or 3 rain wrapped low level tornados out there. This was the worst thunderstorm I've seen in Houston, and I've been here since the 80s. I don't recall a derecho ever hitting Houston in my time, I always thought that was more a midwest/northern type of storm.

  • @lelelum4103

    @lelelum4103

    Ай бұрын

    As a fellow Houstonian I thought Derechos was a northern thing too! Never seen one here and I have lived here all my life

  • @thekawaiiginger7840

    @thekawaiiginger7840

    Ай бұрын

    I am pretty sure they are a thing for the northwest, yeah. Lived in Ohio all my life and I’ve seen a couple (thankfully they weren’t too awful bad)

  • @richardharmon647

    @richardharmon647

    Ай бұрын

    You were one of the Smart ones. I use the weather app a lot when I was doing driving for work. I was able to avoid a few storms that way. I've also driven through some too.

  • @dogbur

    @dogbur

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@thekawaiiginger7840 same-

  • @StylistecS

    @StylistecS

    Ай бұрын

    @@thekawaiiginger7840it is mostly a Midwest thing. But other regions can get them but it’s rare. DC had one 12 years ago.

  • @Sunfell
    @SunfellАй бұрын

    Damn- that was car wash level rain. Then it got chunky. Your subtitles and sense of humor made this a must- watch video. Glad you’re safe.

  • @lepotat3700
    @lepotat3700Ай бұрын

    As a houstonian, you may see this and think it was already pretty dark out when the clouds came. Nope, it was pretty bright out, we had at least two hours of sunlight left under normal circumstances. After the storm ended it actually got brighter

  • @sarahl108
    @sarahl108Ай бұрын

    I drove through a storm exactly like this one during morning rush hour once and it was the closest to feeling like I was going to die that I ever want to be. Glad you made it through!

  • @user-df2rv9il5c

    @user-df2rv9il5c

    Ай бұрын

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  • @TomPauls007
    @TomPauls007Ай бұрын

    Blinding torrential rain with hurricane-force winds. Cool. Great video! I was waiting for someone to correctly title this storm: a Derecho.

  • @m12hequus
    @m12hequusАй бұрын

    If it’s one thing that irks my soul, is someone driving in the rain without their lights on(White Silverado). Also, I’d apply some sort of water repellent (Rain-X) to the windshield and all of your windows. In combination with your windshield wipers, your visibility will improve greatly when it rains. 🙏🏼

  • @ThePwig
    @ThePwigАй бұрын

    Biggest upgrade I have ever done for any car is using RainX wiper fluid. Most of the time I don’t even need to use my wipers, the water flies up and off and the wipers just get in the way. I can see and drive much safer than most people that putter along during rain storms. People that come to a stop with their hazards on are just becoming hazards themselves.

  • @TheCreoleSon89

    @TheCreoleSon89

    Ай бұрын

    Rain x works so good I don’t even need the wipers most of the time. The water just rolls off.

  • @daphnea5447
    @daphnea5447Ай бұрын

    2:40 definitely a bit of hail. That turquoise sky is an indicator of hail.

  • @ForsythJC
    @ForsythJCАй бұрын

    Awesome video, and LOVED the commentary! A few things: 9:40 - that is clearly an Ohio driver. I've lived here for 6 years. During clear and sunny conditions, the beltway turns into a parking lot that ceases all movement, and people somehow STILL manage to have a 900 car pileup. But let it storm or snow, and suddenly everyone turns into a NASCAR driver. It's beyond insanity. 15:15 - that was a d*ck move on the black car's behalf, especially when they just tried the same thing. Like, dude, nobody is going ANYWHERE, and clearly the white car is freaking out and wants to jump back on 290 to GTFO dodge. Just let them go. It's not that serious. I know everyone has a gun in Texas, so the last thing I'd want to incite is a panicked road-rage shootout during a derecho because I decided to play Traffic God. But thank you for letting them through! Finally - what are y'all's power lines and light poles made out of?! Those things didn't move an inch in the apocalyptic winds!

  • @queenb67

    @queenb67

    Ай бұрын

    My thought was the person was looking for higher ground. After weathering TS Allison on the freeway, it taught me to stay off the feeders during heavy rains. If you're from Houston, then you understand.

  • @grmpEqweer

    @grmpEqweer

    Ай бұрын

    I wonder if a gun would even fire in that. Not gonna try it, I don't want a gun-shaped lump of rust.

  • @rockydesign3303
    @rockydesign3303Ай бұрын

    Great video, really shows you what it's like. I lived in Jersey Village off of West in 2000-01. I could see this highway from my apartment. I was there during Tropical Storm Allison, and it rained like this all night long, from 5pm Friday to 7am Saturday morning, no breaks. And this was after a week of the storm circling the Houston area and filling up the reservoirs north, near Spring, Woodlands and all the way to Conroe. The water had no where to go when the storm went back into the Gulf on Friday morning, regained strength and returned like this Friday pm. Entire city shutdown, fully loaded 53ft trailers floating like corks under the overpasses...I'm from Wisconsin, and I'd never seen anything like that. When that power goes off like it does in this video, you start evaluating your energy reserves: 'I've got a half tank of gas that will take me north to food, electricity to charge the phone, money open on the card, snacks and water in the car...'

  • @chappy675
    @chappy675Ай бұрын

    I don’t feel like that truly told the story of what it was like in person. At least not where I am. Those 110mph winds were the scariest thing I have ever experienced.

  • @naty3767
    @naty3767Ай бұрын

    Hmm yes Sunday morning still no power. This Derecho slapped Houston in the face. Down trees everywhere!! Lights out everywhere, windows at my office almost imploded on us and the whole building shook like I have never experienced in my 30 plus years of living in Houston. It was crazy

  • @partnerwithjee5114

    @partnerwithjee5114

    Ай бұрын

    WERE YOU IN A SKYSCRAPER

  • @t.annise

    @t.annise

    Ай бұрын

    What area are you in? Im by Huffmeister and White oak ridge, we got power at like 3am

  • @ebonaparte3853

    @ebonaparte3853

    Ай бұрын

    Was it worse than Hurricane Ike?

  • @bananabandit2
    @bananabandit2Ай бұрын

    2:57 the power flash is insane there we luckily got power back after 15 hours, but some people might be without power for 2+ weeks. Stuffs insane man.

  • @cerka27

    @cerka27

    Ай бұрын

    It’s Sunday morning and I still don’t have power 😭

  • @_Eric._

    @_Eric._

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@cerka27 same 🥲

  • @appleyardjr267

    @appleyardjr267

    Ай бұрын

    I'm still without power

  • @melissas4874

    @melissas4874

    Ай бұрын

    @@appleyardjr267 CPE created a map page that gave an estimation of time to completion, but if I post the page YT deletes my comment. It thinks it is spam. Also, they seem to be running ahead of schedule compared to the map so I assume they made these estimations before crews came in from other parts of the state. The news keeps saying 1 month, but the latest date they have on the map is the 22nd and I have never seen any official CPE statement that it would be a month. I think the local news is just fear mongering in this instance.

  • @stephanie_smith

    @stephanie_smith

    Ай бұрын

    We are still without power too. 😢

  • @42killac
    @42killacАй бұрын

    Thank you for this video. I was delivering groceries from Sam’s Club when this hit. I was off West Road and 290 where you were in this video that’s crazy!! When the rain started to pour I thank God there was a bank right in front and I took shelter. That rain was blowing sideways, trees were falling and you couldn’t see nothing. I feel bad for and other folk who were stuck in traffic on Hwy 290 because ya’ll had no where to go. Sadly I was low on gas and it took a minute for someone to find a gas station that didn’t lose power because after I made the delivery and couldn’t find a gas station opened. S/O to gas station by Cy Fair HS and Walmart for having power because it was packed in there with folks in survival mode.

  • @Mateo5.0
    @Mateo5.0Ай бұрын

    I was stuck in this right at 290 and beltway 8 right behind you! It was definitely the wildest "thunderstorm" I've ever seen in my 38 yrs on this earth!

  • @robloxvids2233
    @robloxvids2233Ай бұрын

    Every fucking storm here between April and June is a hail storm now. And every other year since 2018 we are getting temps in the low teens with ice damage. Lived here since 1995 and it was never like this until 2018.

  • @stephanie_smith

    @stephanie_smith

    Ай бұрын

    Lived here my whole life...51 years and everything you said is so true!!!

  • @crg233

    @crg233

    Ай бұрын

    70s and 80s had solid freezes every winter. T S Claudette dropped 12" of rain on much of Houston in '78. Snowed three times in early '73. Crazytown.

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher

    @MariaMartinez-researcher

    Ай бұрын

    That's why it's called climate *change.*

  • @jordanledoux197

    @jordanledoux197

    Ай бұрын

    Something to keep in mind: we don't care about "climate change" because it is bad for the "earth" or the "environment". The earth and environment won't care, it will adapt. We care about that stuff because it SUCKS for us. Climate models predicted that California would get even more rain. What they DIDN'T say is that said rain would come as more intense but more rare super-rain events, which is the worst of both worlds. Droughts followed by flooding. Or even droughts COMBINED with flooding. Stuff like that sucks for humans. Makes farming much more difficult, causes land slides, makes water management insanely expensive... I'm glad scientists started pushing for the term "climate change" instead of "global warming". Yeah, overall the planet will get warmer, but the thing we care about, how it affects us, isn't really that it gets warmer, it's that the weather gets more and more nuts, and more and more unpredictable, and more and more expensive to deal with. Places like the plains or midwest probably won't get unbearably warm, but maybe the "typical" severe weather season gets extended by 3-6 weeks. That just sucks for people. Stuff like that is why it puzzles me when environmentalists talk about climate change as a "save the earth" type thing. The earth doesn't get hurt by that stuff, we do.

  • @stephanie_smith

    @stephanie_smith

    Ай бұрын

    @@jordanledoux197 I'm actually concerned about the weather manipulation that's impacting these super strong storms.

  • @Oldsmobile69
    @Oldsmobile69Ай бұрын

    I get that people should heed storm warnings, but what are we supposed to do? Not go to work? Not even the meteorologists expected this to be of historic proportions.

  • @thinkIndependent2024

    @thinkIndependent2024

    Ай бұрын

    For me I left that part of Texas in 2018 after multiple 100 year 500 year floods every 6 months the science isn't in there favor

  • @LLove-th4ju

    @LLove-th4ju

    Ай бұрын

    @@thinkIndependent2024 It’s so true. We had the 100 year flood, Hurricane Harvey, then the deadly freeze all back to back in the last 4 to 5 years. It’s been crazy !

  • @stephanie_smith

    @stephanie_smith

    Ай бұрын

    The warnings came in only minutes before that's the insane part!

  • @christhepocketmasterr

    @christhepocketmasterr

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@stephanie_smithSomeone is slacking off at their job. I also predicted it minutes before it happened by looking up at the dang sky.

  • @Hephaestus_God

    @Hephaestus_God

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@christhepocketmasterr Emergency warning Alerts and Tornado Warnings always come in just before... The weather service has a band of area in front of the storm that they predict the worst to occur and only the people within receive the warnings on their phone. Then as the storm progresses they update the area as needed to the next spot and those people receive warnings. It's quite neat... and prevents everyone in an area (like houston) from getting the message all at once when the storm is not near them at the moment.

  • @PrismIsAPuck
    @PrismIsAPuckАй бұрын

    When that sky turns that greenish turquoise hue, you better get the hell out of there as fast as you can. Guaranteed seeing a tornado or something of this nature. Awesome capture of this on video

  • @heathermunoz6282
    @heathermunoz6282Ай бұрын

    Very entertaining! I had got home before it started. Wow, so that's how insane it was on the road! Absolutely horrible conditions. Husband and I were buckled down for a tornado. Thank you for sharing!

  • @texasbassranger
    @texasbassrangerАй бұрын

    Holy crap, this happened to us back in 96. We left Austin to go to Houston to take in a three game series with the astros and decided to drive to Galveston to show our young daughter the Gulf beach. On the way back, we hit exactly this. The wind was throwing us all over the road and the lightning made it almost impossible to see what little bit the rain would allow. No place to pull over, no exits...just stuck in torrential rain and wind, praying some idiot didn't rear end us. This left a knot in my stomach just watching.

  • @John-ct9zs

    @John-ct9zs

    Ай бұрын

    I don't remember a derecho ever in Houston in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. I guess I must have missed that one. Honestly, this is the first derecho in my time from the 80s to present day that I ever remember hitting Houston, at least in daytime hours.

  • @texasbassranger

    @texasbassranger

    Ай бұрын

    @@John-ct9zs Not really sure if it was a derecho...but it was 60mph winds and sideways driven rain for over 45 minutes. Tornado warning for Harris county. This was in 96.

  • @gifthorse3675
    @gifthorse3675Ай бұрын

    Those blueish green skies are ominous

  • @drea409

    @drea409

    Ай бұрын

    I'm starting to wonder if I'm colorblind. I do see green in footage of some tornadoes, but I have not detected any green in any of the pictures or footage from the Houston storm. When the video said the sky was green I paused and turned up the brightness, I can't see it. I see only varying shades of grey. It's weird

  • @cydonianmonk

    @cydonianmonk

    Ай бұрын

    @@drea409 My dashcam has some mild color shifting because of where it's mounted. The sky was greener in person, and the effect was more pronounced off to the west/left, out of view of the camera. I do agree with you, I've seen much much greener and more ominous skies, but it was definitely a bit green for this storm.

  • @texasbassranger

    @texasbassranger

    Ай бұрын

    I've been in Texas for over 20 years and I promise, none of us needs an official warning when the sky goes green. We just watch for the storm and then head to our safe place. Unfortunately, the only thing remotely safe for us is the beer cooler at the Buckees two miles away. Everything else is combo brick and siding homes. Anything stronger than a mid-level F3 and we are screwed.

  • @grmpEqweer

    @grmpEqweer

    Ай бұрын

    It got quite green where I am, east of IAH.

  • @allisonc.4939

    @allisonc.4939

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah possible tornado in area...see rain sideways is telling ya.

  • @corylangford
    @corylangfordАй бұрын

    Can we agree that people putting on their flashers are a giant distraction to the vehicle behind them? Taillights are clearly visible even in low visibility, why put on flashers unless you are disabled on the side of the road?

  • @dennisveazey4469
    @dennisveazey4469Ай бұрын

    Subtitled by the crew that did the opening credits for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 😂❤

  • @spectralflapjack

    @spectralflapjack

    20 күн бұрын

    A møøse ønce bit my sister...

  • @BartzAJohnsonJr
    @BartzAJohnsonJrАй бұрын

    Thank you for the low-key production, leaving the soundscape and the captions were great. You passed the Kia Wheee! Soul back up. But my favorite was the chess move. I hate that so-called Freeway, it used to be my commute. You have my sympathies. I can’t say it was ‘fun’ sweating out the storm with you, but it was definitely captivating and even nostalgic. Ok bai!

  • @AngelCCD

    @AngelCCD

    Ай бұрын

    The chess move was my favorite, too. I hate driving in heavy rain.

  • @tonyamari3
    @tonyamari3Ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing this video! We were stuck at the outlet mall when this hit. I’ve seen some video, but this is the best one. It shows just how fast it came through, and it left just as fast. You were literally in a wrap around tornado. The scariest kind. I’m glad you were safe, and I hope you are doing okay now too. Texas strong. God bless.

  • @dougdawkins9513

    @dougdawkins9513

    Ай бұрын

    They weren't in a tornado. It was NOT cyclonic.

  • @panzonlove08
    @panzonlove08Ай бұрын

    Thank you for posting. Loved the commentary.

  • @andywaters2520
    @andywaters2520Ай бұрын

    I live about 2 miles west of the intersection of West Rd and 290 (where he is at the end of this video). My daughter had a band concert that night and I was aware of the approaching storm. I left my house at 6pm in an attempt to get ahead of it, my planned path taking me roughly parallel to the line of storms coming in from the northwest. Before I could leave my neighborhood, I received a text saying the concert was delayed with no known start time. Begrudgingly, I turned around and went back home to wait for further updates, unsure whether I would even be able make the concert in time considering my commute would now be impacted by the weather. The wind was picking up a bit and fat, scattered splats of rain were coming down. The worst of this struck about 15 minutes after I got home. We lost power for about 20 hours and lost a good portion of the top of a maple tree in the backyard. Had I left any earlier or decided not to turn back, I would have been caught in the middle of all this. The concert has been rescheduled.

  • @loriallen67
    @loriallen67Ай бұрын

    Commentary is great! Thanks. I used to live near Eldridge and Hwy 6. Thanks for showing us the storm.

  • @enid0mom
    @enid0momАй бұрын

    I live a few blocks East of Hwy 6 North and West Little York. Lights went out. Around this time. My daughter and I already had a trip to South Padre Island to leave Friday around noon. She lives near Huffmeister and 290, but her lights didn’t go out. She lives on a cul-de-sac and houses on the other side of the cul-de-sac lost power. She packed and came to my house. Before we left, she helped me empty all the perishables in m dead refrigerator. As I write this (Sunday morning, the 19th), the number of people without power is around 300,000. Down from 800,000 when we left Friday. We will leave the island around 10 am and hope the number without power will be even lower when we get to Houston later and my power is on. I didn’t see any damage to my townhouse, but tree limbs and trees were down everywhere. I will have to buy a new garbage can because mine disappeared in the storm.

  • @patrickthompson8142

    @patrickthompson8142

    Ай бұрын

    Stay in south padre as long as you can. Majority of cypress area are gonna be without power until Wednesday or Thursday, maybe even longer.

  • @John-ct9zs

    @John-ct9zs

    Ай бұрын

    Might as well just stay in South Padre, unless you have to be back for work or some other obligation. The northwest and west side of Houston like Cypress, Spring Branch and Katy was hit hard. I have friends in Missouri City and Pearland and to them it felt like a nothing old regular thunderstorm, because they got the less intense version of it, they don't get what the big deal was. But if you go to the northwest or west part of the city, uprooted trees and downed power lines everywhere. Downtown Houston was just completely f---ed up, due to all those tall skyscrapers getting windows blown out.

  • @LoveBaxterAlways0403

    @LoveBaxterAlways0403

    Ай бұрын

    🙏

  • @warau242

    @warau242

    Ай бұрын

    Some of my friends live close to West Little York. I hope you're doing well now.

  • @LayllasLocker
    @LayllasLockerАй бұрын

    Omg. Look at the size of that freeway. Holy moly.😍

  • @spybubbble

    @spybubbble

    Ай бұрын

    Where’d you get the blue emoji?

  • @vidpie

    @vidpie

    Ай бұрын

    US 290 ain't nothing. "[Houston] can lay claim to the world's widest freeway: The Katy Freeway (I-10) at Beltway 8 is 26 lanes across. Here's how that breaks down: 12 main lanes (six in each direction), eight feeder lanes and six managed lanes. The managed lanes carry mass transit and high-occupancy vehicles during peak hours and are made available to single-occupancy vehicles for a toll fee during off-peak periods."

  • @MasonC93
    @MasonC93Ай бұрын

    Ohhh yeah! This is exactly how it went down for me. Got stuck on 290, stuck in the middle of it. The phone alert and the violent weather to follow were surreal. You're actually driving past my neighborhood here so it's interesting to see how hard my home got hit. At this point, I hadn't driven into the storm just yet, I was still driving home from NE Houston

  • @Ret2Play
    @Ret2PlayАй бұрын

    The rain makes it look like that car's tail lights are on fire 🔥 😮

  • @Sabbathissaturday

    @Sabbathissaturday

    Ай бұрын

    That was my thought too.

  • @apriljohnson421
    @apriljohnson421Ай бұрын

    Fast forwarding this video was the best part.

  • @burner9446
    @burner9446Ай бұрын

    I was home in the path when it came. When the news said my area in the heights was getting hit at 627 it hit at 627. Crazy feeling. Amazing video watching it

  • @esmed779
    @esmed779Ай бұрын

    I was having post traumatic stress watching this, heart palpitations. I live in the far tropical north of Australia. We have storms like this all the time during our Wet Season- October to May. Many times I have not been able to see much past the front of the car. It’s so scary. At least we don’t have hail or the threat of a tornado, not the climate for them, unless we have a really big blow- a cyclone, they can form in them. We also don’t have the traffic. We are a population of 120 000. Fifteen minutes to anywhere. Thanks for posting.

  • @tonirodriguez6649
    @tonirodriguez6649Ай бұрын

    I was on a flight from Houston to OKC at the time. A flite that normally takes 1 hrs, 15 took an extra hour to divert around it. I'm so glad we did 🙏

  • @labaccident2010

    @labaccident2010

    Ай бұрын

    My dad was flying into Austin and had to loop for two hours to avoid the storm.

  • @BoneMamaAZ62
    @BoneMamaAZ62Ай бұрын

    Thank you for the great footage and excellent narration. I am sorry you and all the other folks had to endure this, and my heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. That was one helluva storm.

  • @anastabell1960
    @anastabell1960Ай бұрын

    Ok beside any other amazingly cool fact on this video, the levels of rain done-ness was hilarious! 😂 thank you for sharing!

  • @sofiaschoice3945
    @sofiaschoice3945Ай бұрын

    Love this drivers attitude!!! This was awesome video! Thank you for posting!❤

  • @barbarajean6538
    @barbarajean6538Ай бұрын

    That was intense! Glad you were safe.

  • @pumpupjam9648
    @pumpupjam9648Ай бұрын

    In case some drivers don't know this, put your vehicle flashers on so the other person can see you. Not for rain, but in fog. Even snow storms

  • @czgator9000

    @czgator9000

    Ай бұрын

    It does help visibility but it is illegal to do that in FL. People do it anyway.

  • @Michelle-dx6uz

    @Michelle-dx6uz

    Ай бұрын

    Wow I feel stupid now, I had no idea that is why people used their flashers in bad weather...lol...I thought it was just to let us know they were moving slow because of the weather. Your explanation makes much more sense. Thank you for letting us know!

  • @kharmachaos667

    @kharmachaos667

    Ай бұрын

    Nononono don't do that. I live in an area with plenty of fog, and it's actually WAY WORSE if you put your blinkers on. It's the equivalent of going, "now I'm here! Now I'm not! Now I'm here! Now I'm not!" And it actively distracts me and other drivers who are watching for rockslides and other dangers in the road, including your taillights.

  • @darrenn9007

    @darrenn9007

    Ай бұрын

    No, please NEVER do this

  • @canary3812

    @canary3812

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@Michelle-dx6uz It's stupid and illegal. Now you can't signal properly. Only use your flashers if you're stationary.

  • @QHMCQ
    @QHMCQ21 күн бұрын

    Astounding video. Great captions. Glad you got through this safely and unharmed.

  • @RachelRodriguez-fd7fq
    @RachelRodriguez-fd7fqАй бұрын

    Heyyyy Neighbor! I live in JV! This is my route/exit. When this started I had just got home. I turned on the TV and saw the weather report that a tornado was headed toward Bridgeland. I called my friends and neighbors to make sure they were in a safe spot. The lights flickered, so I grabbed my trusty LED coleman lanterns. I walked into the bedroom where the power gave out. My closet was the safest spot (who knew a lovely skylight in the bathroom would be soo scary); grabbed the cat and shut the door. It sounded horrible, it was loud, it sounded like someone was aiming a giant waterhose at your whole house. I have water damage around the skylight, but it didnt break thank goodness! My rickety fence that the HOA is eye balling - it held up! I got caught in horrible rain earlier that week Tuesday, so when Thursday rolled around I did NOT wanna be stuck on the freeway again, so I headed home early. I feel so bad for the states up north having these tornados so frequently.

  • @jeepo4059
    @jeepo4059Ай бұрын

    My grandson lives a few blocks from 290 on N.Eldridge Pkwy. He is so far away from us. I went there in April to drop off some furniture for him...about had a conniption when I noticed the “N. Eldridge Pkway” exit...🙁So glad you made THIS commute home safely, and thanks for the video!❤️

  • @65gtotrips
    @65gtotripsАй бұрын

    Wicked lightning. Man, that was one powerful line. So much damage, even in downtown Houston. I’d only seen radar loops and a few brief clips…This was really good as it gives you the perspective of what it was like that afternoon.

  • @roadcone76
    @roadcone76Ай бұрын

    Well done. This is my biggest fear riding out west on my motorcycle.

  • @KaleidoscopeMagic
    @KaleidoscopeMagicАй бұрын

    omg, that's the worst I've ever seen rain on Hwy 290 and I've lived here all my life. That wind could snap those tall light poles which could then fall on cars below. Scary!

  • @theamused8705
    @theamused8705Ай бұрын

    I was on my home from the store when the wind hit. Tree branches were flying everywhere.

  • @stevetheartistguy
    @stevetheartistguyАй бұрын

    Loved the commentary.

  • @Wraithpaz

    @Wraithpaz

    Ай бұрын

    The Box of Rain lyric was darkly funny. 😂

  • @user-df2rv9il5c

    @user-df2rv9il5c

    Ай бұрын

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  • @garrettreid5757
    @garrettreid5757Ай бұрын

    I live over in the energy corridor so I didn’t get it as horrible as this but I still got it pretty damn good. Girlfriend got caught in this on I-10 on the way to see me from work. I lost power temporarily but it came back on during the storm luckily. Aunt lives in the heights and got absolutely slammed and just got her power back last night. Parents lost power for a day. Girlfriends Dad is still without power today. Everyone is ok though thankfully. I don’t get freaked out by weather very much because I really like meteorology, but damn this storm spooked me enough to go get in the bathtub for a little while. This is probably the wildest weather I’ve seen in Houston since Ike in 2008.

  • @evoddubb
    @evoddubbАй бұрын

    Hey now, I’m watching this,kinda hypnotized,thinking of the times I’ve driven in extreme circumstances,and I see the words to Box of Rain,one of my favorite Dead tunes. Thanks for that.

  • @RUNNOFT71
    @RUNNOFT71Ай бұрын

    Glad you're alright, but @9:41 made me lol. Weeeeee 😂

  • @Summertyme75

    @Summertyme75

    Ай бұрын

    Same, I'm goofy though😂

  • @patrickthompson8142

    @patrickthompson8142

    Ай бұрын

    Those are the morons of Houston who cause accidents in times like this lol apparently heavier rain means go faster 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @RoyCyberPunk
    @RoyCyberPunkАй бұрын

    That’s like driving through a full blown hurricane 😮

  • @LifeWitTrell368

    @LifeWitTrell368

    Ай бұрын

    Yea there were 2 tornadoes and the derecho it was so scary

  • @RoyCyberPunk

    @RoyCyberPunk

    Ай бұрын

    @LifeWitTrell368 but the hurricane winds conditions was thanks to the Derecho.

  • @Thedude3372
    @Thedude3372Ай бұрын

    Wow what a monster of a storm. The perfect supercell. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Drnardinov
    @DrnardinovАй бұрын

    This video had the best soundtrack of anything to come out of Texas. Very educational. One smart driver there !

  • @rosemariebredahl9519
    @rosemariebredahl9519Ай бұрын

    I like the Grateful Dead song reference ('Box of Rain'). 💜

  • @TyAndras
    @TyAndrasАй бұрын

    That’s nuts! Your storms are green! Never see anything like this in LA.

  • @grmpEqweer

    @grmpEqweer

    Ай бұрын

    Yep. Green weather. One of the two funnel clouds I have seen in my lifetime was green.

  • @kevingray8616

    @kevingray8616

    Ай бұрын

    I’ve lived in the Houston area over 45 years. The first time I had heard the term “derecho” was when watching a farming channel on KZread a couple of years ago as one had hit the midwest. When this storm hit Houston it took a few days before the weather people to bring up the term; I assume after the National Weather Service had confirmed it. We had winds up to Category 2 hurricane strength.

  • @chainsawcharl1e677
    @chainsawcharl1e677Ай бұрын

    I was caught in a forest in the Adirondacks in the 2008 Derecho: 15 minutes of horror. The sky went from calm to black in seconds. Treetops were flying around us. Luckiest day of my life.

  • @verakeys8912
    @verakeys8912Ай бұрын

    After binging tornado videos on KZread for weeks from Houston, I can’t describe to you the level of panick I was experiencing. I live in a skinny house with no interior walls rooms and no rooms without a window. I also quickly pulled up a weather stream that was saying there was rotation headed straight for me. I never thought I’d be in that situation living in the metro of Houston. I love admiring this stuff from afar and on video. But that was the most scared I’ve ever been. Heart beating out of my chest and sobbing. I’ve been through many hurricanes living in Houston but nothing compares to that Derecho.

  • @firemedic5100
    @firemedic5100Ай бұрын

    I have chased tornadoes all over the state, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. I have been in some bad storms, but I have never experienced anything like this one. I was watching a wall cloud when this first hit. At first I thought it was RFD from a rain wrapped tornado I couldn't see. But within a couple of minutes I knew it wasn't.

  • @kattmilk
    @kattmilkАй бұрын

    Did everyone eventually stop driving when it got to zero visibility? I would think that is how those interstate car pile- ups happen in places where severe snow storms hit, yet people are still trying to drive.

  • @stringlarson1247

    @stringlarson1247

    Ай бұрын

    Fog banks in the central valley of CA are the worst. Fortunatly, they don't usually result in news making pile-ups, but vis. goes from 100% clear and sunny to %0 vis. in a second.

  • @fgtsiroeht2562

    @fgtsiroeht2562

    Ай бұрын

    @@88Blazehazethat’s the problem dude… just cause you have your blinker on doesn’t mean you have the right to change lanes…no one has to let you over it’s a nice gesture not the law.

  • @pauladurbin
    @pauladurbinАй бұрын

    I drove through this storm when it came through north Texas Thursday morning. The rain definitely was well done.

  • @southernson4653
    @southernson4653Ай бұрын

    I’m gonna listen to this video tonight to fall asleep to. Love it