{"id":22655,"date":"2025-10-27T07:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/22655\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:52:23","slug":"houston-power-outage-tracker-centerpoint-reports-over-150k-without-power-check-entergy-updates-maps-amid-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/22655\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston power outage tracker: Centerpoint reports over 150K without power, check Entergy updates, maps amid thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CenterPoint Energy, a Texas-based utility company, reports thousands of outages in the Houston <\/a>area after strong thunderstorms struck the area Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

\"CenterPoint CenterPoint Energy reported over 157,000 power outages in Houston due to strong thunderstorms on Saturday morning, affecting thousands of customers as of 5:40 a.m.(Unsplash) <\/p>\n

According to CenterPoint, 157,181 customers are without power as of Saturday at 5:40 a.m.<\/p>\n

Houston power outage tracker: Tornado warnings<\/p>\n

Houston power outage occurred after storms hit the area, causing electricity lines to go down. Several counties in the Houston <\/a>area, including Waller, Harris, and Montgomery, have received tornado warnings, reported Click2Houston.<\/p>\n

CenterPoint announced on Friday that it modified its resource locations to better address any problems in anticipation of the impending weather front.<\/p>\n

In order to react swiftly to potential service interruptions, the utility company deployed 1,300 frontline employees and contractors at 12 locations throughout the Houston region.<\/p>\n

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Netizens report Houston power outage<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, several people took to X, formerly Twitter, to report about the outages, with one saying: \u201cJeeze, 9-10 hours of possible outage for a storm that lasted 30ish minutes. I know the wind was though but this is like every storm, this is getting ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTotally consistent. We get a thunderstorm and @CenterPoint<\/a> @CenterPoint_TX goes down. Every. Single. Time. We’ll probably spend the next week without power because Centerpointless is so bad at what they do,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey @CenterPoint_TX if you have a \u201cplanned outage\u201d you should probably share those plans with the affected residents BEFORE you turn off the power,\u201d a third user reacted.<\/p>\n

Houston power outage tracker: Entergy offers update<\/p>\n

According to Entergy, 20,670 customers remain without power as of 5:30 am local time on Saturday.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, the National Weather Service<\/a> has issued multiple warnings that will last until 7 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n

There is a substantial risk of life or property in several counties including : Austin, Polk, San Jacinto, Fort Bend, Galveston, Colorado, Wharton, Brazoria, Harris, Chambers, Montgomery, Waller, and Liberty, The US SUN reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CenterPoint Energy, a Texas-based utility company, reports thousands of outages in the Houston area after strong thunderstorms struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14402,56,2873,58,57,16436,11454,16437,16438],"class_list":{"0":"post-22655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-centerpoint-energy","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-area","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-houston-power-outage","14":"tag-thunderstorms","15":"tag-tornado-warnings","16":"tag-utility-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}