Clever deception: using %

(reports are now only using % instead of real #s - real number equate to real people. % avoid that.)

>>now

CenterPoint:	46% out
Entergy Texas:	22% out
Sam Houston:	25% out
TNMP:	24% out

CenterPoint	2,258,000	46%	1,038,680
Entergy Texas	392,600	22%	86,372
Sam Houston	115,000	25%	28,750
TNMP	66,000	24%	15,840
Total			1,169,642

>>then
September 19, 2008

Power update: CenterPoint reaches halfway mark

CenterPoint Energy (9 p.m., figures rounded)
1.12 million customers without power
2.258 million total customers
50 percent out

Entergy Texas (4:30 p.m.)
177,955 customers without power
392,600 total customers
45 percent out

Texas-New Mexico Power Co. (7 p.m.)
28,750 customers without power
115,000 total customers
25 percent out

Sam Houston Electric Cooperative (7 p.m.)
30,822 customers without power
66,000 total customers
47 percent out

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