Still nearly 1.9 million power outages.
Beryl hit the Gulf Coast at around 4 a.m. on Tuesday as a category 1 hurricane.
The 65 mph winds knocked down power lines and felled trees.
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At leasteight people are deadand millions are without power.
Many of them, in fact almost all, maintain outage maps that are updated live.
It helps customers know the scale of an outage and where work is being done to return power.
Websites like PowerOutage.us and USA Todaystracker mapjust aggregate the data thats posted by these local power companies.
CenterPoint Energys primary outage management system is currently offline, a note on PowerOutage.us says.
They are currently only able to provide the number of customers out across their entire service territory.
There might be a few reasons for this.
CenterPoint is still giving outage numbers on its website, its just not giving a detailed map.
Customers dont always need that much information and a massive outage like this can tax the OMS.
It takes a lot of data and power to communicate this amount of information in real-time.
Its possible that CenterPoint turned off real-time updates of its OMS so as not to overburden the system.
Doing that is pretty routine during major events like a hurricane.
CenterPoint did not return Gizmodos request for comment.
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Keep in mind, the app should only be used as a general idea of power availability.
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