 Cern. Loss of electricity. CBS meteorologist David Parkinson. When you do get widespread wind gusts of 60 miles an hour, you can get a lot of power outages. And most of the electrical infrastructure in the Houston area is above ground. So wouldn't be surprised to see a lot more power outages as the morning goes on. Barrel packing maximum sustained winds of 80 miles an hour right now. More than 132,000 customers have no power in Texas at the moment.