(Reuters) – More than 146,000 homes and businesses in Texas were still without power on Tuesday after storms battered the region late last week and over the weekend, according to meteorologists and data from PowerOutage.us.
That is down from over 946,000 customers without service in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday, and 150,000 customers without power overnight on Tuesday.
Storms packing hurricane-force winds pummeled the Houston area on May 16, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 customers without power as much of the city was plunged into darkness, Mayor John Whitmire said.
Texas energy company CenterPoint Energy currently has the most outages with over 144,000 customers out in the Houston area, according to PowerOutage.us.
CenterPoint said late Monday it restored power to over 770,000 customers and “remains on target to substantially complete restorations by Wednesday evening.”
Storms in other states over the past 24 hours have left over 31,000 customers without power in Tennessee and over 12,000 out in Nebraska on Tuesday, according to PowerOutage.us.
Major outages by state:
State Outages
Texas
146,000
Tennessee 31,000
Nebraska 12,000
Total Out
189,000
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino and Anushree Mukherjee; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Stephen Coates and Nick Macfie)
