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The Texas Tribune reports:
Hurricane Beryl has knocked out power for more than two million Texas customers, as of 9 a.m. Monday, based on estimates from PowerOutage.us and CenterPoint Energy.
Outages are most extensive in the Houston area and coastal counties including Matagorda, where Beryl landed as a Category 1 hurricane at approximately 4 a.m. Monday morning.
Significant outages are also in Galveston County, Calhoun County and Jackson County. As the morning progressed, outages extended further inland and into Deep East Texas to areas including Polk, San Jacinto, Montgomery, Grimes and Washington Counties.
Read the full article.
“Customers” refers to households and businesses, so the actual number of affected people is much higher.
Over 2 million electric customers are without power in #Texas due to #HurricaneBeryl.
[2024-07-08 9:20 AM CDT]https://t.co/bH0OfNRMxs#PowerOutage pic.twitter.com/npipshNAJT— PowerOutage.us (@PowerOutage_us) July 8, 2024
There’s some serious flooding in Galveston and Houston from Hurricane Beryl.
Multiple tornadoes have touched down and power lines have fallen.
Authorities are already reporting one death.
Stay safe and stay inside, Galveston County and Harris County! pic.twitter.com/e7LVYjoiTB
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) July 8, 2024
Intense wind gusts in the NW eyewall blasting through downtown #Houston right now#Beryl #Hurricane #khou11 @KHOU pic.twitter.com/JJOKZMNc76
— Pat Cavlin (@pcavlin) July 8, 2024