 air conditioning because it was knocked out by what was Hurricane Beryl. ABC's Jim Ryan has more from Dallas. It really wasn't the wind that bothered Houston so much. It was the rain. In some places, nine and a half inches of rain fell in a very short time. The wind, of course, the damage that it did was to the power infrastructure, knocking over power lines, knocking over big, tall power transmission lines for hundreds of thousands of people, two million at one point.