Fewer than 40,000 in the area are still without power.

Under 40,000 remain without electricity, a figure that was once as high as 800,000

Fewer than 40,000 CenterPoint Energy customers in the Houston area were still without power late Thursday — a fraction of the 800,000-plus who have been affected for some period of time since Hurricane Harvey first made landfall on the Gulf Coast a week earlier.

More than half of those now without electricity live in areas where crews can’t get in because of flooding. The company did not provide an estimate for when service would be fully restored.

CenterPoint’s 2,500 crews working this week were joined by some 800 linemen from around the country who had converged on Houston to help out.

All told, roughly a third of CenterPoint’s 2.4 million customers lost their power during the past week, as compared with 2.1 million when Hurricane Ike hit Houston in 2008.

For comparison’s sake, CenterPoint had 2.2 million customers at that time.

Some Texans along the Gulf Coast who lost their power over the weekend may have to wait a few more days before the lights come back on.

In Jefferson, Hardin and Orange counties, all hard hit by flooding, tens of thousands of people are without power, according to Entergy, the utility

company for the area. Several thousand people in Liberty and Montgomery counties are also without power.

Of the nearly 200,000 people who lost power near Rockport, where Hurricane Harvey made landfall, two-thirds of them had it restored by Thursday, according to AEP Texas, the utility for the area.

Tens of thousands of other customers directly affected by hurricaneforce winds could be without electricity for another week, AEP said. Aransas Pass still has the most customers without power, around 37,600, followed by Corpus Christi, without 19,700 customers.

Aransas Pass likely won’t get its power restored until Sept. 8.

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