All it takes is some brisk wind in the Houston area to cause a lot of areas to lose power. At 1:15 PM Thursday, 28,749 customers have no power.

9:10:06 AM, CenterPoint Energy reporting 1055 Customers without power.

9:40:06 AM, CenterPoint Energy reporting 1400 Customers without power.

11:20:08 AM, CenterPoint Energy reporting 4838 Customers without power.

11:50:13 AM, CenterPoint Energy reporting 16568 Customers without power.

1:15:23 PM, CenterPoint Energy reporting 28749 Customers without power.

Source: http://gis.centerpointenergy.com/outagetracker/index.html