Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District's (SWG) Emergency Management Office meet with their counterparts of the Texas Department of Emergency Management, July 17, 2024. USACE set up a temporary emergency power task force in response team following the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl. The task force assessed critical public facilities that needed generators following the hurricane. Beryl, a category 1 hurricane, flooded many parts of southeast Texas and left more than 2.2 million homes and business in the in the greater Houston area without electricity.