One of natures most powerful  and destructive storms are hurricanes. And among us was the storm that destroyed our property, our homes and special belongings. this hurricane was named Beryl.

Hurricane Beryl had knocked out millions of southeast Texas residents power for several days. Which meant no lights, no electricity and worst of all, no air conditioning.

But when hours without cool air turned into days, it turned into strait misery.

Houston took a hard hit as CenterPoint Energy reported more than 2 million homes and businesses without power in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city. Patrick said the company was bringing in thousands of additional workers to restore power, with top priority for places such as nursing homes and assisted living centers.

At least two people were killed when trees fell on homes, and the National Hurricane Center said damaging winds and flash flooding would continue as Beryl pushes inland. A third person, a civilian employee of the Houston Police Department, was killed when he was trapped in flood waters under a highway overpass, Houston Mayor John Whitmire said. There were no immediate reports of widespread structural damage, however.

The loss of power was an all-too familiar experience for Houston: Powerful storms had just ripped through the area in May, killing eight people, leaving nearly 1 million without power and flooding numerous streets.

Residents without power after Beryl were doing their best.

“We haven’t really slept,” said Eva Costancio as she gazed at a large tree that had fallen across electric lines in her neighborhood in the Houston suburb of Rosenberg. Costancio, 67, said she had already been without power for several hours and worried that food in her refrigerator would be spoiled.

In 2024, Hurricane Beryl followed an east-to-west path near South America’s northern coast through a number of Caribbean islands. It impacted Mexico before moving up to the Texas coast.