 There's an advantage to having the first convention, because if you sell them, if they get excited in the first convention, they may not even watch the second convention, much less be persuaded by it. More than 291,000 customers in and around Houston have no power they haven't had since Hurricane Beryl made landfall a week ago. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, fresh back from a business trip to Asia, is joining the calls for an investigation into Centerpoint Energy.