 The number of heat-related deaths in Texas is rising among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl. The toll of storm fatalities is up at least 23, and half of those are due to heat. It took more than a week to restore power for many Houston-area residents during widespread outages across the nation's fourth-largest city. Beryl knocked out electricity to nearly 3 million people in Texas at the height of it. This is SRN News. AccuWeather, exclusive and dependable on AM570 The Answer.