2024-05-16 Houston Derecho

On the 16th of May, 2024, the Houston area and the greater gulf coast were hit by a rapidly moving and very violent storm, now named the "2024 Houston Derecho" by the National Weather Service. This storm arrived largely unexpected with few weather forecasts mentioning the possibility of an event this severe.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Houst...


These are my dashcam videos of the event. My usual 10 minutes commute became a 45 minute ordeal. I've increased the playback speed of several sections to 4 times usual and trimmed out the beginning and ends to make this video a more watchable ~16 minutes.

Recorded on a VIOFO A129 Pro and edited in DaVinci Resolve. Radio program was KPFT's Progressive Forum hosted by Wally James interviewing Thom Hartmann. The GPS-corrected clock in the dashcam is somehow set to UTC+4. I don't know why. This all happened at 6PM local time.