• CenterPoint Energy restored power to 155,000 customers in Greater Houston as severe thunderstorms triggered outages over Memorial Day weekend.
• Outages peaked at about 45,000 customers between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.; about 10,000 customers remained without power as of 5 p.m.
• The utility kept its Emergency Operations Center activated; crews remained on round-the-clock restoration duty with more severe weather expected through Monday.

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