A Whataburger restaurant
Some Houston residents used Whataburger's app to track power outages.
  • Some Texas residents used Whataburger's app to track power outages in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.
  • They used its restaurant map to see which areas appeared to have regained power.
  • 2.26 million customers lost access to power, said CenterPoint Energy, Houston's main energy provider.

People in Texas have been using Whataburger's app to follow power outages in the wake of Hurricane Beryl because of a lack of information from Houston's main energy provider.

CenterPoint Energy said that 2.26 million customers had lost their power access during the storm.