{"id":419763,"date":"2026-08-29T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419763\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:30:13","slug":"houston-power-outages-fall-after-friday-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419763\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston power outages fall after Friday thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 14,000\u00a0CenterPoint Energy customers remained\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/projects\/2021\/houston-texas-power-outage-tracker\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">without power<\/a> across the Houston area Friday evening after thunderstorms knocked out electricity to tens of thousands earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>At the height of the outages, more than 52,000 CenterPoint customers had lost electricity, the company said. By 7 p.m., that number had fallen to more than 14,000 as hundreds of workers continued repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The region saw more than 24,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes Friday afternoon, according to CenterPoint Energy. Thunderstorms moved into the Houston area this morning and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-weather\/hurricanes\/article\/september-peak-hurricane-season-outlook-22338996.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">additional storms remained possible <\/a>Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, CenterPoint said more than 350 employees and contractors were working to restore power and would continue working throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate our customers\u2019 patience as our crews work to restore power,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 14,000\u00a0CenterPoint Energy customers remained\u00a0without power across the Houston area Friday evening after thunderstorms knocked out electricity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-419763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419763","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=419763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}