May 17 (Reuters) - More than 946,000 homes and

businesses in Texas, Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states were

still without power on Friday morning after killer storms

battered the region on Thursday, according to meteorologists and

data from PowerOutage.us.

The storm with hurricane-force winds pummeled the Houston

area on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows

out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 homes

without power as much of the city was plunged into darkness, the

mayor said.

Texas energy company CenterPoint Energy ( CNP ) currently

has the most outages with around 725,000 customers out in the

Houston area, according to PowerOutage.us.

CenterPoint said on its website that it restored service to

over 93,000 customers over the past 24 hours.

In Louisiana, Entergy ( ETR ) was the hardest hit power

company with over 73,000 customers without service, according to

PowerOutage.us.

Major outages by state:

State Outages

Texas 788,000

Louisiana 148,000

Mississippi 10,000

Total Out 946,000