A social media post shows a screenshot of the Whataburger app on a smartphone arranged in Houston, Texas, US, on July 10, 2024. Houston residents trying to monitor blackouts in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl discovered that city's largest electric utility had no working outage map. So they had to rely on an alternative: a burger app. — Bloomberg
Houston residents trying to monitor blackouts in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl discovered that city’s largest electric utility had no working outage map. So they had to rely on an alternative: a burger app.
With temperatures soaring and more than two million people in the dark, CenterPoint Energy Inc customers found that the company’s website didn’t have a power-restoration tracker. Then a social media post suggested using the Whataburger app to see which of the fast-food chain’s restaurants were closed during business hours – presumably due to a lack of electricity.
