Someone’s dream home in the making was no match for the hurricane-force derecho winds that pummeled the Houston Metro area last week. This was in Willis, Texas.
WILLIS, Texas – Incredible video shows the moment last week’s derecho that slammed into the Houston metro overpowered a dream home in the making.
Neighbors in Willis, Texas, across the street from the construction project, had a feeling that the frame of the three-story house wouldn’t be able to withstand the hurricane-force winds screaming through the community.
“Oh there it goes,” neighbor Randy Dawson can be heard saying on the video to two others. “It went, I told you. I told you. I told you that was going to happen.”
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The two women with him were shocked, repeating rounds of, “Oh my God.”
Each layer, starting at the bottom, starts leaning, then collapses like slow-motion dominoes. All that was left was a pile of lumber that looked more like a kid’s failed popsicle stick project.
The scene from the backyard was just as shocking, literally. A bolt of lightning struck the lake directly behind the house.
Lightning strike in Willis, Texas on May 16.
(Randy Dawson & Chastity White /TMX / FOX Weather)
The derecho, a line of intense and widespread damaging winds traveling a great distance, left seven dead across the Houston metro. The 90-100 mph winds knocked windows out of downtown skyscrapers. At the height of the storm, over a million customers were without power. Officials said it could be weeks before everyone gets power back.
Transmission lines were no match for the Goliath winds either.
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File: Downed transmission power lines are shown near Grand Parkway and West Rd. after a storm Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Cypress, Texas. ( )
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File: Damage around the Houston metro after severe storms (Cy-Fair Fire Department.)
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File: Workers clean up debris downtown on Monday, May 20, 2024 in Houston. The city closed off streets in a six-block exclusion zone downtown, from McKinney to Polk and from Smith to Travis, as workers continued to clean up broken glass from downtown streets and windows. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle)
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File: A Houston police officer walks back to his vehicle after clearing people away from a damaged tire shop at the intersection of Sowden and Bingle in the aftermath of a severe storm. (Logan Riely)
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File: Damage is left behind after severe thunderstorms swept through Houston on May 16, 2024. ( )
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File: A 31-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell across her vehicle on May 16, 2024. ( )
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File: Shattered and boarded up windows are seen on the side of the Wells Fargo Plaza building in Houston, Texas, on May 17, 2024, one day after the National Weather Service warned of “severe” thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. Four people died in Texas on May 16 as heavy storms with winds up to 100 miles per hour lashed the southwestern US state, local authorities said. (CECILE CLOCHERET/AFP)
