 If I don't get out by 8.30 in the morning, then it's not going to happen that day. Because even in the evenings, last night at 10 o'clock when I let them out to go potty their last time before I went to bed, it was still 109. A utility executive in steamy Houston warns that about a half million homes and businesses will not have electricity until next week as widespread outages from Hurricane Beryl persist. Centerpoint Energy says power has been restored to more than a million homes and businesses.