A car crushed by bricks from a fallen building wall sits in a downtown parking lot after a severe thunderstorm passed through Thursday in Houston.
Mandatory Credit:	David J. Phillip/AP via CNN Newsource

A car crushed by bricks from a fallen building wall sits in a downtown parking lot after a severe thunderstorm passed through Thursday in Houston.
Mandatory Credit: David J. Phillip/AP via CNN Newsource

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Hurricane-force wind gusts in Houston kill 4, smash skyscrapers and cut power to hundreds of thousands

A destructive complex of storms with hurricane-force wind gusts tore through Texas and downtown Houston Thursday, leaving at least four dead and hundreds of thousands without power, before racing into Louisiana Friday where it caused even more damage.