HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Over 800,000 CenterPoint Energy customers are still without power four days after Hurricane Beryl ripped through southeast Texas.
CenterPoint, the largest energy provider for the area, says crews are working 16-hour shifts — and apparently getting threats.
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In a post on social media, the company asked the public to keep distance from the crews and allow them to keep working.
“Safety is our number one priority. We have received numerous reports of threats being made to our employees and crews,” CenterPoint wrote.
According to CenterPoint’s Outage Tracker, over 870,000 customers were still in the dark on Friday morning, and 1.3 million customers had been restored since the storm. CenterPoint declared that, with 2.26 million customers impacted, this is the largest outage in the company’s history.
Customers can check the company’s online Restoration Mapto get an idea of the repair progress …