More than a million people in southeast Texas are still without power for the third-straight day after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Texas coast.
More than a million people in southeast Texas are still without power after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Texas coast.With so many people without power, temperatures are rising.A Heat Advisory is in place for much of south central and southeast Texas with the heat index expected to climb near 105 degrees.Hurricane Beryl is being blamed for nine deaths in Texas and one in Louisiana.12,000 linemen have been brought to Texas from as far as Ohio and West Virginia to help restore power.
CenterPoint says it remains confident that it will restore 1 million customers within 48 hours of the storm's exit from the area.Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has called for a review of CenterPoint's preparations for Hurricane Beryl.During an afternoon news conference on Tuesday, Patrick fielded several questions about the outages and CenterPoint's lack of information about when power will be restored.
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