Storm chaser reports from eye of Hurricane Beryl amid landfall
Reporting from the eye of the storm, Storm Chaser Aaron Jayjack witnessed strong winds tearing a metal roof from a storage facility as Beryl passed through Sargent, Texas, on July 8.
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00:00Here, just north of Sargent, Texas, in the calmish eye of Hurricane Beryl, which has
00:09already made landfall, officially made landfall here on the Texas coast.
00:14And now we are in this reprieve, calmish winds right now, you can hear the frogs making noise
00:21back behind me.
00:22A little bit of light rain falling right now, but nothing like what I just experienced over
00:26the last few hours in Sargent, Texas, as strong winds in the eastern eyewall of Beryl
00:34destroyed a sheet metal storage facility, caused other damage, knocking down trees,
00:39knocking down power lines, power is out all through this area, and we still have the other
00:45half of the hurricane to go.
00:47This hurricane was intensifying as it made landfall, and even at this moment right now
00:53could still be intensifying slightly, but that will come to an end here very soon as
00:58the hurricane continues to move inland into Texas, and we begin to shift into a flooding
01:04threat.
01:05Heavy rains falling from the hurricane will cause urban flooding and inland flooding over
01:10the next day as the storm continues to move out of the region.
01:15For AccuWeather, I'm Storm Chaser Aaron Jajak on the Texas Gulf Coast.