More Than 800,000 Customers in Houston Remain Without Power After Beryl

More than 800,000 customers were still without power in the Houston, Texas, area on Friday morning—five days after Beryl hit southern Texas—according to a power company. As of Friday at 9:45 a.m. local time, CenterPoint Power’s tracker showed that 877,000 customers were without power, but noted that more than 1.3 million customers’ power had been restored since Beryl struck the region. Power outages peaked at 2.7 million customers across Texas after the storm made landfall Monday, according to a map provided by PowerOutage.us. The site shows that more than 1 million people are still without power in the state. The company said that it expects to restore power to all its customers by Sunday, July 14, according to a statement issued on Thursday evening.  The firm said in a previous statement that it will “have an additional 400,000 customers restored by the end of the day on Friday,” based on the “current progress” of restoration efforts....