by Olivia Rondeau at Breitbart
More than one million Texans are still without power as of Thursday afternoon following Hurricane Beryl’s Monday touchdown in the state, with energy providers rushing to get their customers back in the light.
From a data set of nearly 14 million customers, PowerOutage.us reports that more than 1.2 million Texans do not have electricity — with most being in the Houston area.
Hurricane Beryl, which was a category two event when it crossed the Texas coast near Matagorda early Monday morning, has since been downgraded to a tropical depression after losing most of its strength, the Associated Press reported.
“Texas state and local officials warned it could take several days to restore power,” the news agency noted.
CenterPoint Entergy announced that it had restored power to more than one million customers by Wednesday but still had around one million more to go, FOX 26 Houston reported.
CenterPoint said that around half of its impacted 252,460 customers had been restored as of Wednesday, while…
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