Dear Friends and Supporters,

You put me over the top last night! With your help, I was able to win in convincing fashion here in District 55. As you know, I won both the general election and the special election, which means I will be sworn in the next several days rather than in January. I will have more details soon, but I wanted to extend an invitation to each of you to join me for the ceremony.

Hard work and perseverance got me here. It will be more hard work and perseverance that will help me become a successful legislator for Bell County down in Austin.

Ultimately, I couldn't have done it without your help. For everything you have done to help me win, I want to express my most sincere thanks.

As always, you can call me on my cell phone, (254)493-4399. I hope to hear from you when I'm in Austin.

God Bless,

Ralph Sheffield

CenterPoint Energy Customer Outage Update

• Total customers with power:

1.72 million (76% of total customers)

• Total customers without power:

541,000 (24% of total customers)

• Total customers restored: 1.61 million

• Total number of customers

in service territory: 2.26 million

• Total number of customers

affected by Ike: 2.15 million

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CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC

CenterPoint Energy Customer Outage Update

• Total customers with power:

1.49 million (66% of total customers)

• Total customers without power:

767,000 (34% of total customers)

• Total customers restored: 1.37 million

• Total number of customers

in service territory: 2.26 million

• Total number of customers

affected by Ike: 2.15 million