text:  After Hurricane Beryl, seven people are confirmed dead and nearly 1.4 million customers still have no power in the Houston area. The big utility there is Centerpoint Energy, but its online outage tracker has a running count but no map. Our friends at Houston Public Media are reporting that is a kind of very Texas improvised outage mapper. Some people are using the app from the Whataburger fast food chain to see which burger joints are open, figuring the lights in the surrounding neighborhood might be on as well.