7 dead in Houston area after storms, 100-mph winds

“This kind of wind is something we have not seen in Harris County since Hurricane Alicia in 1983,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top government executive in the county, said at a news conference Friday.

Hurricane Alicia was a small hurricane but was a Category 3 when it made landfall near San Luis Pass on Aug. 18, 1983. It killed 21 people, according to the weather service, and total damage from it and its effects totaled more than $3 billion.