/tags/hurricane-nicholas Hurricane Nicholas en-US Copyright Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:23:25 GMT /business-economy/2021-09-16/nicholas-spares-gulf-of-mexico-oil-production-but-ida-recovery-continues Houston oil and gas companies are working to bring production in the Gulf of Mexico back online after a pair of storms hit the region. Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:23:25 GMT /business-economy/2021-09-16/nicholas-spares-gulf-of-mexico-oil-production-but-ida-recovery-continues Kyra Buckley| Houston Public Media /texas-news/2021-09-14/nicholas-brings-power-outages-flooding-to-texas-coastal-and-bayou-areas More than 400,000 Harris County homes were without power on Tuesday morning. Galveston received about 14 inches of rain, and Houston saw about 6.5 inches. Wind speeds clocked around 45 to 50 mph in the area. Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:23:44 GMT /texas-news/2021-09-14/nicholas-brings-power-outages-flooding-to-texas-coastal-and-bayou-areas Bri Kirkham /texas-news/2021-09-14/more-than-400-000-lose-power-as-tropical-storm-nicholas-moves-through-houston Wind speeds reached 50 mph in Galveston after the storm made landfall along Matagorda Bay just after midnight, before slowly travelling Northeast. Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:31:28 GMT /texas-news/2021-09-14/more-than-400-000-lose-power-as-tropical-storm-nicholas-moves-through-houston Lucio Vasquez | Houston Public Media, Paul DeBenedetto | Houston Public Media, Haya Panjwani | KUT /2021-09-13/tropical-storm-nicholas-threatens-texas-gulf-coast-with-heavy-rain Tropical Storm Nicholas hit the Texas coast early Tuesday as a hurricane and dumped more than a foot of rain along the same area swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, drenching storm-battered Louisiana, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people and bringing the potential for life-threatening flash floods across the Deep South. Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:38:06 GMT /2021-09-13/tropical-storm-nicholas-threatens-texas-gulf-coast-with-heavy-rain Associated Press