These 14 Photos Show Hurricane Beryl's Intense Wrath On Texas

1. On Monday, Hurricane Beryl arrived in Southeast Texas.

2. The hurricane hit the Lone Star State as a Category 1 storm.

3. Beryl came to Texas as a notably weakened but still powerful storm, having reached its peak as a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic last week. According to the New York Times , Beryl stormed several Caribbean countries as a Category 4 storm, including Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica.

4. On Friday, Beryl then arrived on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula as a Category 2 storm.

5. Beryl's rainfall and wind hit areas of the state's eastern Gulf Shore before extending to the Greater Houston metro area:

6. Beryl first made landfall in the coastal area of Matagorda, southwest of Houston. Debris blocked a lane on Matagorda's FM 2031, a road running alongside the Colorado River that connects a peninsula to mainland Texas:

7. A structure sitting at the top of a trailer was also damaged in the area:

8. Winds whipped through Bay City:

9. Flood water overtook some streets in Houston:

10. According to the Houston Chronicle , over 2 million people or businesses in Houston were without power as of Monday afternoon.

11. A street sign came loose in Spring, Texas, north of Houston:

12. A tow truck helped a vehicle out of water in Rosenberg, Texas:

13. According to NBC News , the National Hurricane Center downgraded Beryl to a tropical storm midday Monday.

14. Finally, the remnants of Beryl are expected to move northeast through the United States over the next few days, with parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio in the possible path of rainfall and wind.