What Houston looked like from space after May 16 derecho storm [Video]

HOUSTON — When a derecho storm blew across the Houston area, including the heart of downtown, it brought winds of 100 miles per hour in some spots.

The devastating storm knocked out power to nearly one million CenterPoint customers, damaged infrastructure and spawned two tornadoes that leveled homes and buildings.

On Thursday, NASA Earth put some perspective on just how much of the Houston area lost power with Thursday’s storms with a post on X.  It shows what Houston looked like from space before the storms and then what it looked like after.  In the after image, it showed large portions of the city in the dark.

CenterPoint Energy and crews that were called in from outside of Houston spent days knocking down the number of outages and as of 1:20 p.m. Thursday, there were still 20,200 without power.