HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Some Houston-area residents were without power as southeast Texas experienced severe storms and heavy rain on Thursday.
We have issued an ABC13 Weather Alert Day through Friday evening.
According to CenterPoint Energy’s outage tracker, just 426 Houston-area customers remained without power, as of 9:30 p.m., hours after thousands had energy knocked out.
The outage tracker counted 168,199 customers restored over a 24-hour period.
The outages came as several counties have experienced significant flooding. Residents just south of Lake Conroe Dam near the San Jacinto River were also told to take immediate action due to a release of water from the lake to account for ongoing heavy rain.