HOUSTON -- The weekend got off to a rocky start in parts of southeastern Texas as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through early Saturday morning, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers.

In addition to torrential rains and skies full of lightning, wind gusts reached 45-60 mph across the Houston metro area, with a gust of 59 mph measured in Downtown Houston and a 64 mph gust in Hempstead, according to the National Weather Service.

About 260,000 were without power as dawn broke on Saturday across southeastern Texas, according to PowerOutage.com , with over 150,000 of those outages in the Houston area.

Earlier in the night, severe thunderstorms blasted the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area with gusts as high as 67 mph in the Fort Worth area.

Radar indicated a possible

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