Herman Artuz lives in Simonton, a small city in Fort Bend County along the Brazos River. He said he isn’t looking forward to another night without power.
FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas — Fort Bend County residents are still feeling the impacts days after Hurricane Beryl swept through.more than 135,000 CenterPoint customers living in Fort Bend County still didn't have electricity.
"I got a generator going. I’ve spent already over thirty gallons of fuel, it just keeps going," he said. “My wife says, ‘Well, we can go to a hotel.’ Where are we going to go a hotel? We’ve got three dogs and two cats," he said. “When the lines are down and there are power outages, I’m one of the first ones they call," he said.
“Those homes over there, they just collapsed and went into the water," he said about homes along the Brazos River.
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