As Tropical Storm Beta drenches the Texas Gulf Coast, utilities in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana worked on Sept. 21 to restore electricity to customers previously cut off by hurricanes Laura and Sally, and the Louisiana utilities were bracing for Beta’s impact. And this latest storm has prompted port authorities along a wide swath of the Gulf Coast to suspend pilot services. The National Hurricane Center’s 4 pm CT bulletin said Beta was about 25 southeast of Port O’Connor, Texas, at the southern end of Matagorda Bay, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, traveling northwest at 5 mph. A storm surge warning – 1 to 4 feet — was in effect for Port Aransas, Texas, to the Sabine Pass at the […]