In Texas, 1.3 million customers still without power after Hurricane Beryl

[July 11, 2024]  (Reuters) - More than 1.3 million homes and businesses in Texas were still without power early on Thursday after Hurricane Beryl slammed through the region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

Seby Godinho, 50 and Jack Souza, 52, run a convenience store without electricity in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl in Oyster Creek, Texas, U.S., July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

The number was down from a peak of close to 2.7 million homes and businesses without power on Monday.

Beryl lost strength quickly upon making landfall, and it was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone by Tuesday.

Provider Centerpoint Energy said it has restored power to over 1 million customers of the 2.26 million impacted.

(Reporting by Seher Dareen, Rahul Paswan, Anushree Mukherjee, Sherin Elizabeth and Daksh Grover in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Leslie Adler and Susan Fenton)

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