Days after Hurricane Beryl crashed through the city, Houston is still grappling with the aftershocks.
Large swaths of America’s fourth-largest city are still without power, shutting stores and snarling traffic at non-functioning lights. Gas stations are either closed or swamped with long lines of people desperate to fuel their cars and home generators.
More than 1 million homes and businesses face another day sweltering without air conditioning as the US National Weather Service warns of heat-related illness. About 500,000 customers will remain in the dark into next week as the city’s main utility, CenterPoint Energy Inc., rebuilds parts of its system that were damaged by the storm, according to a company representative.
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