Power restoration in parts of Texas after damage from Hurricane Beryl could take days or longer to be restored.
Utility trucks sit parked at a CenterPoint Energy staging center at the Houston Race Track in Houston, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Millions of residents lost power after Hurricane Beryl made landfall. to the Houston area after Hurricane Beryl slammed into Texas, leaving millions of residents in the dark and without air conditioning in searing summer heat.
Beryl was no longer a Category 5 behemoth by the time it reached the U.S. before sunrise Monday. It made landfall as a weakened hurricane with sustained winds of 80 mph after having already torn a deadly path of destruction through parts of Mexico and the Caribbean.In the Houston area, Beryl toppled transmission lines, uprooted trees and snapped branches that crashed onto power lines. By late Wednesday afternoon — over 60 hours after landfall — about 1.
Houston was also hit hard in 2021 when Texas’ power grid failed during a deadly winter storm that brought plunging temperatures, snow and ice. Millions of Texans lost power during that storm and were left to ride it out in frigid homes, or flee.
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