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With an Aggie army at their back, donations have poured in from across the country, arranged by Stephen’s friends from the Texas A&M Aggie Band. HOUSTON, Texas — The baby books and animal blanket were the finishing touches, the last bit of love poured into their very first nursery.  “Placed the mobile in the crib, last stuffed animal on the rocker,” Stephen Wenzel said.  The next day, it was all gone. “Getting your baby’s world ready…

A Tornado Warning was issued around 10:30 a.m. in Cut and Shoot, where residents say intense weather caused damage within a matter of minutes. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A line of intense Saturday morning storms uprooted trees, scattered debris and even took out power lines in Montgomery County.  The National Weather Service later confirmed a tornado hit the northeastern parts of the county after conducting a storm survey. They said the tornado has been given…

A Tornado Warning was issued around 10:30 a.m. in Cut and Shoot, where residents say intense weather caused damage within a matter of minutes. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A line of intense Saturday morning storms uprooted trees, scattered debris and even took out power lines in Montgomery County.  The National Weather Service later confirmed a tornado hit the northeastern parts of the county after conducting a storm survey. They said the tornado has been given…

A Tornado Warning was issued around 10:30 a.m. in Cut and Shoot, where residents say intense weather caused damage within a matter of minutes. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A line of intense Saturday morning storms uprooted trees, scattered debris and even took out power lines in Montgomery County.  The National Weather Service later confirmed a tornado hit the northeastern parts of the county after conducting a storm survey. They said the tornado has been given…

Both the United Cajun Navy and CrowdSource Rescue are assisting in the aftermath. Help is on the way after multiple tornadoes destroyed several towns across the Midwest and South.  The devastation can only be described as indescribable, and relief groups in the Houston area are rushing to areas most gravely impacted to communities in need.  “It’s just heartbreak,” says United Cajun Navy spokesperson Brian Trascher. The United Cajun Navy was part of the relief effort…

Both the United Cajun Navy and CrowdSource Rescue are assisting in the aftermath. Help is on the way after multiple tornadoes destroyed several towns across the Midwest and South.  The devastation can only be described as indescribable, and relief groups in the Houston area are rushing to areas most gravely impacted to communities in need.  “It’s just heartbreak,” says United Cajun Navy spokesperson Brian Trascher. The United Cajun Navy was part of the relief effort…

A cadre of Houston firefighters are joining hundreds throughout the Lone Star State to prep for potentially dangerous wildfire weather this week in west Texas.  Gusty winds and dry air will combine to create an elevated threat of uncontrollable wildfires in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains as a weather system moves across the state. In preparation for potential fires, Gov. Greg Abbott deployed a portion of the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS)…

Christmas came early for a Houma couple who moved here to start a new life. Mattress Mack and Gallery Furniture delivered a truckload full of gifts. HOUSTON — Santa came early this year for a Louisiana couple who lost their home and nearly everything they owned in Hurricane Ida a few months ago. “You just expect the storm to pass and things go back to normal in the in the next few weeks,” Michele Thomisee…

HOUSTON — The start of our work week welcomes a front that brings back widespread shower chances. The line of showers and thunderstorms is looking to push through the northern portion of the viewing area right around the 8 a.m. morning commute. By the lunch hour, the band of storms is in the Houston metro area. The wet weather looks to reach the coast by about 3 to 4 p.m. The Storm Prediction Center has…

Listen To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: <iframe src=”https://embed.hpm.io/414728/414626″ style=”height: 115px; width: 100%;”></iframe> A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all. This week, our panel weighs in…

Workers are finally razing the empty and rotting high rise at 2100 Memorial Drive years after floodwater from Hurricane Harvey permanently damaged the structure and displaced hundreds of seniors.  Demolition equipment was spotted Tuesday atop the 14-story building chipping away at the upper floors. A multi-level garage on the property has already been dismantled. The ultimate destruction of the 52-year-old structure will last into February, according to the Houston Housing Authority.  The building at 2100…

Homes are surrounded by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, in Freeport, Texas. Tuesday marks the end of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which started on June 1. “It was an active season,” said Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon. “We’ve had 21 named storms. Usually, it’s in the lower teens on average and seven of those made it to hurricane status, with four major hurricanes….

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly 15 months after Hurricane Laura struck, Louisiana is kicking off $11.3 million in housing repair and rebuilding programs for the southwestern city of Lake Charles while it waits for hundreds of millions in promised federal aid to arrive. Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, and Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter, a Republican, announced the plans at a joint press conference Monday. The effort will be financed with federal housing…

As many as 130,000 CenterPoint customers lost power Thursday afternoon as crews worked to keep up with the widespread outages around Houston. HOUSTON — The wind knocked out power to tens of thousands of CenterPoint customers Thursday and the numbers keep climbing. At 4 p.m. CenterPoint’s outage map showed nearly 130,000 homes and businesses were in the dark. Our studio on Westheimer was one of those customers. We were on backup generators part of the…