At a news conference on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that Gov. Abbott was calling for an investigation into CenterPoint.
That’s according to acting Texas Gov. Dan Patrick. Patrick is acting governor while Abbott is overseas on a trade mission.
At the height of the storm, more than 2.2 million CenterPoint customers were out of power. At 3 p.m. Thursday, CenterPoint was down to 1.047M customers still in the dark. On their website, CenterPoint“Folks, that is not acceptable,” Patrick said Thursday at a news conference in Houston. “And I know it's a hard job. I know it's more people than they've ever had without power.”
Patrick said in the news conference that he thinks CenterPoint underestimated the impact Beryl would have on Texas. “We’re going to investigate it,” Patrick said. “We’re going to get to the bottom of it. We are always gonna have big storms in this area. We have lots of trees that hit power lines. That’s going to happen. But we have to be sure that they were as prepared as they should have been before.”CenterPoint said its crews are near completion on damage assessment, with more than 8,500 miles of its circuits walked and thousands of miles flown across the Greater Houston area.
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