• CenterPoint restored power to essentially all customers able to safely receive service following overnight thunderstorms across Greater Houston.
• About 87,000 customers were affected when storms moved through around 1 a.m.; fewer than 500 remained without power as of 4 p.m.
• At peak impact around 2:30 a.m., about 1% of customers were without service at any one time; average restoration time per outage was about 35 minutes.
• Normal operations resumed; Emergency Operations Center was demobilized.

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