More than 240,000 customers remained without electricity Friday morning, but rising temperatures were expected to aid the slow work of bringing power back to homes and businesses. austin poweroutages kprc2 click2houston texas
About half of those outages were customers of Austin’s city-owned utility. Officials in Texas’ tech capital said on Thursday that they couldn’t give a clear timeline when all the local outages can be fixed, despite initially promising full restoration by Friday evening. The utility said Friday morning it had worked through the night to restore power to 31,585 customers.."We know you are frustrated. We are too.
“Because additional outages are coming online as we restore power, it may look like no progress is being made,” Austin Energy general manager Jackie Sargent said during a press conference Thursday morning. “It feels like two steps forward and three steps back.” The outages and debris caused many Central Texas school districts to close for the rest of the week. Even with temperatures climbing, the Austin, Round Rock, Eanes, Lake Travis, Leander and Elgin districts all canceled class on Friday.
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