(Reuters) – More than 223,000 homes and businesses in Texas were still without power on Monday after storms battered the region last week and over the weekend, according to meteorologists and data from PowerOutage.us.
That is down from over 946,000 customers without service in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday, and 226,000 customers without power earlier on Monday.
In addition, to outages from storms late last week in Texas and other Gulf Coast states, there were also about 17,000 customers still without power in Kansas from storms over the weekend.
Storms packing hurricane-force winds pummeled the Houston area on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 customers without power as much of the city was plunged into darkness, Mayor John Whitmire said.
Texas energy company CenterPoint Energy currently has the most outages with around 219,000 customers out in the Houston area, according to PowerOutage.us.
CenterPoint said in a release on Sunday that it “remains on track to be substantially complete with restoration by Wednesday evening.”
Major outages by state:
State Outages
Texas 223,000
Kansas 17,000
Total Out 240,000
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Jonathan Oatis)
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