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Watch: Hurricane-force derecho topples dream home like popsicle stick project in metro Houston

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Watch: Hurricane-force derecho topples dream home like popsicle stick project in metro Houston

Watch: Houston Derecho snags her dream home

Someone’s dream home in the making was no match for the hurricane-force derecho winds that hit the Houston metro area last week. It was in Willis, Texas.

WILLIS, Texas– Incredible video shows the moment last week’s derecho that slammed into the Houston subway system overpowered a dream home in the making.

Neighbors in Willis, Texas, across the street from the construction project, felt the frame of the three-story home would not be able to withstand the hurricane’s strong winds blowing through the community.

“Oh, there you go,” neighbor Randy Dawson can be heard saying on the video to two other people. “It’s gone, I told you. I told you. I told you it was going to happen.”

HOUSTON SUBWAY SHOCKED BY 100 MPH DERECHO THAT LEFT 7 DEAD AND MORE THAN 1 MILLION WITHOUT POWER

The house framed before the deadly gusts.
(Randy Dawson and Chastity White/TMX)

The first floor has collapsed and the second is on its way.
(Randy Dawson and Chastity White/TMX)

The third story involves dirt.
(Randy Dawson and Chastity White/TMX)

Afterwards, the house looked like a pile of wood.
(Randy Dawson and Chastity White/TMX)

The two women who accompanied him were shocked, repeating “Oh my God”.

Each layer, starting at the bottom, begins to tilt, then collapses like dominoes in slow motion. All that remained was a pile of wood that looked more like a child’s failed popsicle stick project.

The scene from the backyard was just as shocking, literally. Lightning struck the lake just behind the house.

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Love at first sight in Willis, Texas, on May 16. (Randy Dawson and Chastity White /TMX/FOX Weather)

The derecho, a line of intense and widespread destructive winds traveling a great distance, left seven people dead in metro Houston. Winds of 90 to 100 mph knocked out windows of downtown skyscrapers. At the height of the storm, more than a million customers were without power. Officials said it could be weeks before everyone has power restored.

The transmission lines were also no match for Goliath’s winds.

SEE: DEADLY STORMS HIT HOUSTON AS FEROCIOUS WINDS LEAVE DESTRUCTIVE PATH ACROSS THE SOUTH

File: Downed transmission power lines are shown near Grand Parkway and West Rd. after a storm Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Cypress, Texas.
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File: Damage around the Houston metro after violent storms
(Cy-Fair Fire Department.)

File: Workers clear debris from downtown on Monday, May 20, 2024 in Houston. The city closed streets in a six-block exclusion zone downtown, from McKinney to Polk and from Smith to Travis, while workers continued to clear glass debris from the streets and windows of the downtown.
(Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle)

File: A Houston police officer returns to his vehicle after directing people away from a damaged tire store at the intersection of Sowden and Bingle following a severe storm.
(Logan Riely)

File: Damage is left behind after severe thunderstorms swept through Houston on May 16, 2024.
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File: A 31-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on her vehicle on May 16, 2024.
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File: Broken and boarded up windows are seen on the side of the Wells Fargo Plaza building in Houston, Texas, May 17, 2024, a day after the National Weather Service warned of “severe” thunderstorms and possible tornadoes . Four people died in Texas on May 16 when severe storms with winds reaching 100 miles per hour hit the southwestern U.S. state, local authorities said.
(CÉCILE CLOCHERET/AFP)

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