Winter Storm: Over 100,000 Without Power In Texas And Louisiana; 59 Seniors Displaced

More than 100,000 people across two states have been left without power as a powerful storm passed through Texas and headed for Louisiana Tuesday. The storm also brought forth a tornado that displaced about 59 residents of a senior living facility in Deer Park.

In Texas, nearly 78,000 customers are without power as of 9 p.m. Tuesday, while more than 29,400 customers are still under power outages in Louisiana, according to data from outage tracking site PowerOutage.us.

CenterPoint Energy leads the list of providers who had the most number of customers affected by the storm with more than 52,600 clients without power in Texas.

In Louisiana, Entergy and Southwest Louisiana EMC lead the list of providers with the most number of customers without power with a total of roughly 19,000 customers affected by outages.

Aside from power outages, the storm has also damaged several sites in the Deer Park area in Texas. Authorities are still evaluating the extent of the damage, but officials confirmed that the senior assisted living facility San Jacinto Manor was destroyed by a tornado that hit the city at around 3 p.m., according to the New York Times.

As of Tuesday evening, authorities were still searching for a relocation site for 59 residents in the ruined facility.

Mayor Jerry Mouton said some of the damage in Deer Park, located about 19 miles south of Houston, included fallen power lines and minor damage to some residences.

The storm that brought the damaging tornado to Texas is expected to affect its neighboring states such as Louisiana and Oklahoma through Wednesday, as per a Tuesday report by the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center (WPC).

Various storm-related warnings remain in effect in Texas even though the storm is now in Louisiana. These include flood warnings effective until further notice for the following areas: Newton, Orange, Nacogdoches, Cherokee and Angelina.

NWS officials are expecting flooding in portions of Louisiana as the office issued flood warnings effective until further notice in the following locations: St. Tammany, Washington, Webster, Calcasiue, Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Allen, Evangeline, Acadia and Rapides.

A tornado watch also remains in effect until 1 a.m. Wednesday for at least 30 parishes in Louisiana, including Lafayette, Orleans, St. Mary, Livingston, Vermilion, Avoyelles and Tangipahoa.

The NWS in New Orleans has warned of thunderstorms capable of producing "intense rainfall rates," which may then result in localized flash flooding.

In Oklahoma, multiple winter storm warnings are in effect through 6 a.m. Wednesday, including in Le Fore, Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee and Haskell.