Hurricane Beryl: Texas Power Outages
The lack of power and the heat is causing problems.
The Category 1 storm lashed Texas, causing massive power outages and flight cancellations. It battered the Caribbean region last week.
Nearly one million residents were still without power in Texas five days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall. About That producer Lauren Bird explains why the situation became so dire and how a massive heat wave made things considerably worse.
CenterPoint Energy, which services the area, says it has now restored power to roughly 1 million people affected by the storm. However, the lack of power in the heat is causing problems for those still not restored.
At least three people have died in the Houston area because they lost power from Hurricane Beryl and overheated.
Hurricane Beryl (/ˈbɛr.əl/) was a deadly and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that impacted parts of the Caribbean, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Gulf Coast of the United States in late June and early July 2024. It was the earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record during any season in the Atlantic and just the second in the month of July, the other being 2005‘s mid-July Hurricane Emily.
Beryl was also the strongest hurricane to develop within the Main Development Region (MDR) of the Atlantic before the month of July. The second named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane[nb 1] of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Beryl was an atypical hurricane that, in addition to causing widespread destruction along its path across the Caribbean and United States, broke many meteorological records for the months of June and July, including its location, intensity and longevity.
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