Saturday morning storms knock out power for more than 100K in Houston area
Source: Houston Public Media
More than 100,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area lost electricity early Saturday morning as the region was struck by strong overnight thunderstorms.
Another wave of rainfall was in the forecast for later Saturday, starting in the afternoon, along with wind gusts of up to 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
CenterPoint Energy, which supplies electricity to much of the Houston area, reported more than 140,000 customers without power as of about 7:30 a.m. The number of outages had dwindled to fewer than 70,000 by about 9 a.m., with the utility company saying it had deployed 1,300 “frontline workers” in response to the storms.
The Houston area is under a flood watch until 5 a.m. Sunday.
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