Jul 17 Watch 6:03 Frustration with power company mounts as Texans face weeklong outage after Hurricane Beryl By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas More than a week after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, utility crews across Houston are still working to restore power to the last 50,000 customers who have been without electricity through a stretch of hot weather. Some residents and politicians say… Continue watching
Jul 15 Texas governor criticizes Houston power company as they say electricity will be mostly restored by Wednesday By Jim Vertuno, Nadia Lathan, Associated Press The majority of Houston outages that followed Hurricane Beryl should be fixed within the next two days, the city’s main utility company said Monday as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to punish CenterPoint Energy even after the lights come back. Continue reading
Jul 10 Hurricane Beryl leaves millions in Texas without power amid high heat and humidity By Associated Press More than 1.7 million homes and businesses in Texas lacked electricity Wednesday morning. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch 2:31 Hurricane Beryl leaves millions in Texas without power amid scorching heat By Stephanie Sy, Jonah Anderson Millions of Texans are left without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl. The outages come amid a stretch of extreme heat that is connected to at least five deaths in the West this week. Beryl is now a smaller… Continue watching
Jul 09 Beryl leaves hot misery along Texas coast and brings threat of flooding to the north By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Hurricane Beryl left millions without power as temperatures soar in Texas. Continue reading
Jul 08 Nearly 3 million lose power as Beryl barrels through Texas. Officials say it will take days to get it back on By Mark Vancleave, Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the storm toppled 10 transmission lines and that many of the outages were caused by fallen trees. Continue reading
Jul 08 After slamming Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, Beryl is downgraded to a tropical storm By Mark Vancleave, Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Police in the Houston suburb of Rosenberg urged residents to stay off the roads, reporting that one of its high-water rescue vehicles had been hit by a falling tree while returning from a rescue. Continue reading
Jul 07 Texas coastal residents warned of floods and power outages as Beryl approaches landfall By Mark Vancleave, Associated Press Beryl began lashing Texas with rain and intensifying winds Sunday as coastal residents boarded up windows, left beach towns under evacuation orders and prepared for the powerful storm that has already cut a deadly path through parts of Mexico and the Carribean. Continue reading
Jul 07 U.S. appeals court will review its prior order in a Texas county’s library book ban case By Kevin McGill, Associated Press Llano County officials have argued that they have broad authority to decide which books belong on library shelves, while library patrons who sued the county said removing the books — which deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism… Continue reading
Jul 06 Beryl expected to regain hurricane strength as it crosses Gulf of Mexico en route to Texas By Juan A. Lozano, Jim Vertuno, Associated Press Texas officials Saturday were urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl as the storm is expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading