Almost 300,000 still without power one week after Hurricane Beryl ripped through Texas
Hundreds of thousands of people in southeastern Texas are still without power, one week after Hurricane Beryl caused devastation on its path through the state.
Hundreds of thousands of people in southeastern Texas are still without power, one week after Hurricane Beryl caused devastation on its path through the state.
Some 288,000 energy customers were in the dark and Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, leaving many without air conditioning as a persistent heat wave brings temperature of up to 93 degrees.
More than 119 million were under extreme heat warnings Monday, with the National Weather Service forecasting temperatures of 100 degrees or higher in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
CenterPoint Energy, the main electricity supplier in the Greater Houston area, says it has reconnected almost 2 million people — about 90% of the those affected — since Beryl brought down scores of power lines and brought trees crashing into homes.
Gov. Greg Abbott used a news conference Sunday to demand that the company explains how it is improving its hurricane preparation plans before the end of the month.
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