Power Outage Reports

The Chronicle is currently showing 2.1 million.

Bloomberg has 4.5 million.

Not sure why the discrepancy. The Chronicle is citing a Centerpoint spokesperson; Bloomberg has Centerpoint as well. I assume they are comparing different geographic areas. The Chronicle story looks to be about 2 hours older than the Bloomberg story.

One million people fled.

Update: The Chronicle has updated their story and the breakdown is now clearer. Centerpoint has 2.1 million customers without power, which translates to 4.5 million people. 395,000 Entergy customers are without power, and 113,000 Texas-New Mexico Power customers are without power. The Chronicle report says 5 million total are without power, but carrying out their conversion from Centerpoint customers to people, it looks like it could be closer to 6 million.

Another interesting factoid in the story: Ike damaged 30 percent of Centerpoint's system (the story makes it sound like this is the minimum estimate of damage).