CenterPoint Energy crews don restore power for most of dia customers wey dey affected by overnight storms wey bin dump heavy showers for di region. Nearly 15,000 people bin without power early for di day, according to CenterPoint outage map.
Despite di thousands of outages, roughly 96% of di company customers avoid storm-related impacts. In all, di storms affect around 133,000 customers, one CenterPoint news release tok. By Thursday, only 16 customers still dey without power, according to di outage map.
John Cornelius, CenterPoint vice president of distribution operations and overnight incident commander, talk for statement say: “We know how disruptive outages can be for our customers. Dat is why our focus remains on restoring service for those affected by dis storm event safely and as quickly as possible. Our Emergency Operations Center go remain activated as our crews continue working around di clock to respond to isolated outages across di Greater Houston area.”
Jarrod Wardwell, wey be breaking news reporter for di Houston Chronicle, report dis story. Before coming to Houston, Jarrod work as local reporter covering Fairfield and Easton for Hearst Connecticut Media Group. He graduate with journalism degree from di George Washington University, where he serve as editor in chief of di GW Hatchet and intern with CNN. Jarrod originally from Winthrop, Massachusetts.
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