How many people have lost power in Texas due to Hurricane Beryl?
Hurricane Beryl battered southeast Texas early Monday with heavy rain, flash floods, and strong winds, and caused power outages for millions of people.
Hurricane Beryl has left millions of people without electricity on Monday after pounding southeast Texas with heavy rain and powerful winds.
Beryl had weakened to a tropical storm after passing through the Caribbean and Mexico, but regained strength and reached Category 1 as it made landfall in southeast Texas early Monday.
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How many people have lost power in Texas due to Hurricane Beryl?
According to the Texas Power Outages Map, more than 2.6 million customers have no electricity due to the effects of the storm.
Those who were affected numbered at more than 163,000 shortly before 7:30 a.m. The number leapt to more than 1.5 million in less than half an hour, and now stands at more than 2.6 million, as of 11:45 a.m. CT.
Acting Governor Dan Patrick, who has stepped in while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is out of the country, had earlier given disaster declarations for 121 counties in the Lone Star State.
The storm is now moving north and east, and the lieutenant governor warns residents to be prepared for flooding that could persist for days, as Beryl has not stopped pouring rain into ground that has already been saturated with water.