Houston swelters in punishing heat as 800,000 without power after Beryl

Residents suffer sleepless nights without air-conditioning as energy company blames fallen trees for outages

Nearly 800,000 Houston residents remain without electricity five days after the category-1 Hurricane Beryl downed power lines across the city. The outages come as the city is under heat advisory, with heat index values over 100F (37.8C).

Residents have described insufferable heat, sleepless nights, and fear for the wellbeing of elderly parents, young children and disabled relatives amid scorching temperatures.