A home destroyed by Hurricane Beryl bakes in the midday sun on Monday off Blue Water Highway in Surfside Beach. The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images At least six people have died in Texas and one in Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Beryl, as a huge clean-up and restoration operation gets underway to reconnect 2.3 million energy customers who lost power during the storm's disastrous procession through the state.
A 53-year-old man and a 74-year-old woman both died when trees fell onto their homes in separate incidents in Harris County, Texas, police said. Montgomery County Emergency Management confirmed the deaths of three people: a man in his 40s who was struck by a tree while operating a tractor, and two people whose bodies were found in a tent in a wooded area in Magnolia. Houston Police Department confirmed Monday that information security officer Russell Richardson, 54, was "was caught in rising flood waters and tragically lost his life.
" In Bossier Parish, Louisiana, northeast of Shreveport, Sheriff Julian Whittington said in a statement on Facebook that a woman was killed when a tree fell on her house. More from NBC News: Biden assails Democratic elites as he fights to remain in the race Trump-appointed judge resigns after report on 'sexualized relationship' with law clerk Biden hasn't seen neurologist outside annual physicals, White House doctor says Beryl has since been downgraded to a tropical depression, but more than 21 million people from Arka.
