Days after Hurricane Beryl crashed through the city, Houston is still grappling with the aftershocks.
Large swaths of America’s fourth-largest city are still without power, shutting stores and snarling traffic at non-functioning lights. Gas stations are either closed or swamped with long lines of people desperate to fuel their cars and home generators.
More than 1 million homes and businesses face another day sweltering without air conditioning as the US National Weather Service warns of heat-related illness.
Rimsha Aslam, 28, moved to the city just three months ago from Thailand. She and her father had to leave the apartment they shared after it was flooded, finding refuge in a neighborhood YMCA that’s been transformed into a coolin