More than 1.3 million Texas homes and businesses remain without power since Hurricane Beryl slammed into the eastern side of the state on Monday and the deadly consequences are starting to rack up as at least two were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from generators being run to keep air conditioning on during the heat while the third – a 71 year-old woman near Crystal Beach – died after her oxygen machine ran out of battery power and her generator shut down, CNN reports.
The post-storm blackout death toll comes on top of at least 11 dead across Texas and Louisiana from Beryl itself. Governor Greg Abbott remains in South Korea on an economic business something trip, having declared an emergency after Biden Administration officials had to track down Abbott and his staff to get him to formally do so to allow for federal relief efforts to be deployed.