Beryl was forecast to bring winds of up to 110 miles per hour to parts of southeast Texas by early Monday.
Texans are unusually familiar with power outages: The state had more weather-related power outages from 2000 to 2021 than any other, according to the advocacy organization Climate Central.
In 2008, Hurricane Ike left two million customers across eastern Texas without power for three days after the storm.
Hurricane Rita, in 2005, also caused widespread power outages lasting as long as seven days in some Texas counties.
Texas officials, electricity companies and individuals were all thinking about the grid as Beryl churned through the Gulf of Mexico.
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