A week after Hurricane Beryl knocked out power for millions across Houston, more than 250,000 homes and businesses are still without electricity.
As of Monday morning, 257,205 customers were without power, according to CenterPoint Energy. That’s down from a peak of more than 2.5 million at the height of the storm.
The utility said it expects to restore power to 90% of impacted customers by the end of day Monday and 98% by Wednesday, with 14,000 crew members working on the effort. However, a revamped restoration map shows some areas aren’t expected to have power restored until Thursday or Friday.
“The progress we have made over the past week is remarkable given the scale of the damage we have seen across the region,” the company said. “Over 2,100 poles were damaged during the storm and over 18,600 weakened trees had to be removed from our lines, which impacted over 75% …