(Bloomberg) — The majority of Houston remained without power in Tropical Storm Beryl’s wake, and authorities warned the blackout could last days even as heat builds across the battered region.
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Beryl left the nation’s fourth-largest city a morass of flooded streets, downed trees, darkened traffic lights and power lines lying on the ground. Three deaths were blamed on the storm, including a Houston Police Department employee who drowned in his car. Beryl, a Category 1 hurricane when it struck Texas early Monday, already had killed 11 people in a week-long rampage across the Caribbean.
About 85% of the homes and businesses served by the Houston area’s main electric utility — CenterPoint Energy Inc. — lost…
