{"id":235551,"date":"2026-04-05T02:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235551\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:07:07","slug":"many-thousands-without-power-in-texas-after-saturday-storms-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235551\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Thousands Without Power in Texas After Saturday Storms | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thousands of Texas residents are reported without electricity Saturday night after slow-moving storms blew through Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The largest amount appears to be in the Houston area, where CenterPoint Energy reports about 10,000 customers without power, keeping in mind that a home is considered one electricity customer, so for family or multi-family dwellings to be included in the total, the number without power could easily be in the tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Entergy Texas reported several dozen customers without power through East Texas and east well into Louisiana, which was particularly hard hit by strong winds and rain.<\/p>\n<p>Up through Central Texas and the Dallas area, Oncor Energy reported more than 2,000 customers out of power at the height of the electricity line repairs Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the number of those without power in Texas was estimated just after dark at about 12,400, <a href=\"https:\/\/usoutage.com\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to USoutage.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many thousands of Texas residents are reported without electricity Saturday night after slow-moving storms blew through Texas. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-235551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235551","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=235551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}