As of Thursday afternoon, more than 1 million Texans were still without power after Hurricane Beryl struck the state on Monday, and power companies are scrambling to get electricity back on to customers.
PowerOutage.us uses a data set of approximately 14 million customers Reports More than 1.2 million people in Texas are without electricity, most of them in the Houston area.
Hurricane Beryl is Category 2 Events after crossing the coast near Matagorda, Texas, early Monday morning. Downgraded The Associated Press reported that the hurricane had almost completely lost strength and had become a tropical storm.
“Texas state and local officials warned that it could take days for power to be restored,” the news agency reported.
CenterPoint Enterprises Announced FOX 26 Houston reported that power had been restored to more than 1 million customers by Wednesday, but about 1 million more still needed to be restored.
CenterPoint said about half of the 252,460 affected customers had power restored as of Wednesday, while Texas and New Mexico Power (TNMP) was “still working to restore power to about 57,000 customers as of Thursday morning,” the media outlet reported.
“TNMP says crews are making great progress restoring power, but Beryl has caused extensive damage to infrastructure,” FOX26 reported.
The company warned that this could cause restoration times to vary.
Houston-area residents have taken to social media to complain about the power shortages, with one X user joking that he’ll “start playing with the wires” himself if CenterPoint doesn’t come to a quick resolution.
CenterPoint Energy has about 17 minutes left before I have to go outside and start messing around with the wires.
— Beaver Basher 68 (@beaverbasher68) July 8, 2024
A Harris County man shared that he discovered the fast food chain’s Whataburger app can double as an outage tracker.
The Whataburger app acts as an outage tracker, which is handy since the power company doesn’t provide maps.
Approximately 1.9 million power outages remain. pic.twitter.com/d8srWmw1oV— BBQ Brian (@BBQBryan) July 9, 2024
Photo Houston Chronicle Posts It just goes to show how far disgruntled customers will actually go to show their hatred for Centrepoint in the form of graffiti.
Someone in Houston has strong feelings about CenterPoint Energy.
As of Wednesday morning, 1.3 million customers were still without power due to the effects of Hurricane Beryl.
📷️: Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle Photographer pic.twitter.com/JSQa3zh0yE
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) July 10, 2024
Houston businessman and philanthropist Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale announced that he would open his Gallery Furniture store to the public and offer free cell phone charging, food and air conditioning.
Day 3: Free food, charging and cooling stations available until 8pm CST at GF 6006 N FRWY. And @Centerpoint_Energy: Enough is enough! pic.twitter.com/qUohKYvMaz
— @MattressMack (@MattressMack) July 10, 2024
“Enough is enough,” McIngvale told Centerpoint.
