Houstonians Are Using the Whataburger App to Track Power Outages

Benjamin Franklin was credited for discovering electricity in 1752 with his famous kite experiment. And now, only 272 years later, if your power is out, and you want answers . . . All you have to do is open your Whataburger app. 

 

 

I'm not sure Ben would've seen that coming.

 

 

Here's the backstory: Hurricane Beryl has been pummeling Texas, and a lot of the Houston area has been without power.  People are unable to get updates because the local outage tracker crashed from high demand.

 

 

Locals were left with no idea which parts of the city had power . . . until Whataburger.  

 

 

Since there are so many Whataburger restaurants in southern Texas, people are able to use the app as a power outage tracker.

The Whataburger social media team even commented on the post and said, "Well, that's a use for our app we didn't think of! We hope you and everyone else are okay."

 

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