At least eight people died as a result of “Beryl”, an already degraded tropical storm that He touched the ground This Monday a hurricane passed through Texas (USA), and on Tuesday its strength exceeded 2.3 million people have no electricity in a broad region that includes the city of Houston.

In addition to the destruction of homes, infrastructure and fallen trees due to strong winds,”Beryl caused the floodstorm surges and spawned a series of tornadoes that worsened the situation outside Texas.

At least eight people have died from Beryl, which left much of southeast Texas without power amid the outbreak, authorities said. temperature records what federal authorities are predicting for this week.

At least two deaths were caused felled trees.

In Houston, Civil Servant of the Police Department He died after being trapped in a flood on the avenue.

A man was also killed by a falling tree in Louisiana. due to a possible tornado near the town of Benton.

At least eight people have died in total, but the death toll could rise as search and rescue operations, the authorities noted.

CenterPoint Energy, which serves Harris and Fort Bend counties, hopes to restore power to at least one million customers in Texas by the end of Wednesday.

On Monday the offer is less 300 thousand clients.

It is expected that in Texas a feeling of temperature of about 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit), making it worse without air conditioning among those affected by the power outage.

In the west of the country, some 40 million people They will face temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (about 38 degrees Celsius) over the next seven days, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

(EFE)