HOUSTON – The weekend got off to a rocky start in parts of southeastern Texas as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through early Saturday morning, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
In addition to torrential rain and skies full of lightning, wind gusts reached 45-60 mph across the Houston metro area, with a gust of 59 mph measured in downtown Houston and a 64-mph gust in Hempstead, according to the National Weather Service…