FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas — Over two million people are still without power and service after Tropical Depression Beryl made landfall in Texas. Some of those Texans include the family of 6 News Reporter Sydney Dishon.
The Dishon family are some of the many people who need to drive miles just to get cell service and updates.
Kenny Dishon lives in Fort Bend County, where the eye of the storm passed.
"We're about approximately 30 miles west of Houston, in the Richmond area," Dishon said.
Around 5:30 a.m. on June 8, several people started losing power and phone service.
"You're completely disconnected from the outside world," Dishon said. "You're scared of the unknown."
All Dishon knew was that Beryl was expected to hit. When it arrived, neighbors say they could feel their houses shaking and whistling noises were going on for hours. That was until the eye hit.
"It was dead calm," Dishon said.
Dishon described the experience as something he's never been through before.
"We went through Hurricane Harvey and Tropical Storm Allison," Dishon continued. "I can remember being a teenager and going through Hurricane Alicia here back in 1983. Out of all of those different experiences, this one was the most unique, probably one of the scarier ones. When you're inside the house and you're watching a tree, a massive, you know, 40-plus-foot tree that is just getting tossed around in the wind like a doll, like a child's toy. You're seeing that and then the wind, it stops and you have that calm. It's really interesting because you're going from one extreme to another."
Now, the community is left with lots of flooding, downed trees and fences and some car damage.
"People are the things that can't be replaced, so very, very fortunate to have made it through this experience without any serious injuries that you know," Dishon said. "And once the eye moved through, you see people on the street start moving around and you kind of check on one another and it's very comforting to know that, you know, such a force of nature can come through and that people can make it through."
Unfortunately, there are two confirmed deaths in Harris County after Beryl downed trees in separate Houston neighborhoods. There is no estimate as to when service will be restored.
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