"Texas Power Crisis: Gov. Abbott Demands Immediate Action Post-Beryl"
TL;DR
Nearly 300,000 people in southeastern Texas remain without power a week after Hurricane Beryl, as temperatures soar amid a heat wave. Governor Greg Abbott has demanded that CenterPoint Energy improve its hurricane preparation plans and has directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas to investigate the prolonged outages. CenterPoint is working to restore power and has deployed thousands of staff to address the damage.
- Almost 300,000 still without power one week after Hurricane Beryl ripped through Texas NBC News
- ‘Completely unacceptable:’ Gov. Abbott sets timetable for immediate action from CenterPoint after post-Beryl failures KPRC Click2Houston
- Houston’s Hurricane Beryl electricity outages -- assigning blame and action needed now KHOU.com
- Ken Hoffman knows whom to blame for Houston's too slow Beryl recovery CultureMap Houston
- New CenterPoint map adds deadlines for restoring Houston's power Chron
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