![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We had hoped to make more progress today,“ said Jackie Sargent, general manager of Austin Energy. In Austin, city officials compared the damage from fallen trees and iced-over power lines to tornadoes as they came under mounting criticism for slow repairs and shifting timelines to restore power.īy Thursday night, Austin officials backtracked on early estimates that power would be fully restored by Friday evening, saying the extent of the damage was worse than originally calculated and that they could no longer predict when all the lights may come back on. UNCERTAINTY FOR POWER RESTORATIONįor many Texans, it was the second time in three years that a February freeze - temperatures were in the 30s Thursday with wind chills below freezing - caused prolonged outages and uncertainty over when the lights would come back on. In Central Texas, there are roughly 7,350 customers impacted in Travis County, 20,200 in Williamson County and 18,200 in Bell County. In Hopkins County (Sulphur Springs) there are roughly 2,600 people impacted. Thursday, in Smith County (Tyler), there are roughly 21,000 people impacted. Oncor said their southern, eastern and northeastern regions, including Tyler, Sulphur Springs and Taylor are experiencing the greatest impacts from the storm. The number was down to about 280 outages across Denton and Collin counties Thursday night. By Thursday night there were about 2,700 customers impacted in Tarrant County, down from about 6,800 in the afternoon. Thursday, there are roughly 1,800 customers impacted by outages in Dallas County, down from more than 3,000 earlier in the afternoon. Oncor said Thursday afternoon that crews are working on damage assessment, vegetation management and power restoration caused by the ongoing winter storm.Īccording to Oncor's outage map, as of 9:20 p.m. Oncor says they are working to repair roughly 4,400 outages statewide Thursday impacting about 100,000 customers, down from about 140,000 earlier in the day. Power failures have affected about 30% of customers in the city of nearly a million at any given time since Wednesday. The failures were most widespread in Austin, where impatience was rising among 150,000 customers nearly two days after the electricity first went out, which for many also means no heat. Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in their homes Thursday after more than a day without power, including many in the state capital, as an icy winter storm that has been blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths lingered across much of the southern U.S.Īcross Texas more than 280,000 customers were without power Thursday night, down from 430,000 earlier in the day, according to. ![]()
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