 As of this morning, more than 1.7 million homes and businesses still without power. 60 cooling centers set up so far. Long lines at the few gas stations and grocery stores that have been able to reopen. And overcrowding hospitals has forced the state to open a 250-bed makeshift hospital at NRG Stadium. Texas Department of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd. It's in the patient's best interest not to send them to a place that doesn't have power, that they can't keep their medications refrigerated.