Hurricane Beryl to hit 11 states, including New York, after six killed in Texas

Before it eventually loses strength on Thursday morning, Hurricane Beryl will rip through the center of the Midwest and extend as far as western New York, bringing dangerous weather to 11 states.

At Matagorda, roughly 80 miles south of Houston, the storm made landfall on Texas' east coast early on Monday. It was a Category 1 hurricane with wind gusts as high as 80 mph. It pounded Houston on Monday, dropping about 12 inches of rain in some areas of the city in a matter of hours. This resulted in severe flooding on key highways , trapping numerous people in their cars and necessitating rescue operations. At least six Texans are said to have been killed in the wake of Beryl.

However, the threat is not limited to Texas . Beryl is projected to leave Texas and proceed from the Midwest to New York and New England by Tuesday AM, when it will be downgraded to a tropical depression.

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According to weather forecasters, the storm is predicted to move northeast through Arkansas. It is expected to strike western New York and its leftovers may extend northward to Canada.

Parts of western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana may experience severe weather on Tuesday due to Beryl. Though most of Beryl's power has been lost since making landfall, the storm is still expected to dump 1 to 3 inches of rain as it moves north, with patches of three to five inches as it moves across northeast Texas and the Great Lakes.

Beryl might bring rain to Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago. By the time it reaches New York late on Wednesday and early on Thursday, it will only be bringing rain and not posing a serious weather concern. By midday, more than two million CenterPoint Energy customers in Texas were without power as Beryl made her way through the Houston area.

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Houston Mayor John Whitmire urged residents to stay at home in order to avoid floodwaters, downed power lines, and potentially dangerous debris during a press conference on Monday. "I do not have power, we’re all living this together, we’re all in this together," Whitmire said.

According to the New York Post, Bridget Robinson, a resident of the Texas coast close to Galveston, remarked that although things are "not great" for the neighborhood, she considers herself fortunate to have a generator to keep the lights on.

Near Houston's Astrodome, firemen in Houston saved a man whose pickup truck was nearly completely submerged by throwing him a life jacket and a life ring and pulling him to dry land.

Samuel Peña, the chief of the Houston Fire Department, stated that his teams "cannot continue to service every call type that same way."