Texans use Whataburger app -- not power company -- to stay updated on outages after Hurricane Beryl

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NY Post reporter Jennie Taer is on the ground in Texas where Hurricane Beryl made landfall on July 8.

With the lights out in parts of Texas following Hurricane Beryl’s landfall, thousands of people in the state have turned to an unlikely source for updates — a popular burger chain.

The app for the fast food chain has a geomap that shows which locations are open and have power, and which restaurants are closed because they likely don’t have electricity,“The Whataburger app works as a power outage tracker, handy since the electric company doesn’t show a map,” theTropical Storm Beryl kills three, knocks out power for 2.

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