More than 800,000 customers remained without power Friday afternoon, more than four days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas.
and electricity as of Friday afternoon, more than four days after the hurricane flooded streets and left more than two million people without running air conditioning as temperatures soared into the nineties.
The storm has been blamed for at least 11 deaths in the U.S. and nine in the Caribbean. At least three people were killed in metropolitan Houston, weather officials have said. that the utility company was prepared for the storm and had brought in crews from outside Houston to mobilize as soon as the storm passed.
“In a lot of cases, it’s not just branches, these are entire trees that have to be cleaned up before we can do the restoration,” he said.Rosa M. Zelaya, 53, of Humble, Texas, a city just outside Houston, who has been without power since the storm landed Monday.“It’s horrible because we don’t have anything. We need food and water,” said Zelaya, who on Friday morning was sweating through her blue dress.
“They wouldn’t let me walk up and get any food,” said Jackson, 58, of southeast Houston. “It made me feel unwanted, like I didn’t mean anything.” A couple of others said they experienced the same.
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