“CenterPoint Energy says it’s hoping to restore power to an additional 350,000 customers by Sunday”
CenterPoint says it tracked Beryl for nine days before landfall and quadrupled its crews to 12,000. Six days later roughly a million homes and businesses are still dark, a dozen hospitals are in “internal disaster” and 135 wastewater plants are offline. Harris County fire departments took more than 200 carbon monoxide calls in 24 hours from people running generators. CEO Jason Wells says he “personally owns” the communication problem. His customers own the heat.