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galleryCoast Guard air crew surveys Texas cities in aftermath of Hurricane Beryl
From staff and wire reports
July 9, 2024
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew conducts fly-overs in Texas after Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. Capt. Keith Donohue, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston, joined the mission to assess damage impacts from Hurricane Beryl. (Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard)
On Monday, in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, an HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi conducted flyovers of a handful of coastal cities to assess the damage.
Among the places the crew surveyed: Matagorda, Texas City, Galveston and the port of Houston.
Beryl, which made landfall early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, has been blamed for at least seven U.S. deaths — one in Louisiana and six in Texas — and at least 11 in the Caribbean, according to the Associated Press. More than 2.1 million homes and businesses around Houston lacked electricity Tuesday, down from a peak of over 2.7 million on Monday, according to PowerOutage.us.
At midday Tuesday, Beryl was a post-tropical cyclone centered over Arkansas and was forecast to bring heavy rains and possible flooding to a swath extending to the Great Lakes and Canada.
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew conducts fly-overs in Texas after Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. (Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard)
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew conducts fly-overs in Texas after Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. (Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard)
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew conducts fly-overs in Texas after Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. (Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard)
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew conducts fly-overs in Texas after Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. (Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard)
A Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew conducts fly-overs in Texas after Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. (Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard)
Contributing: The Associated Press