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As Central Texas braces for 2nd time of the wintertime storm, thousands suffer powerfulness successful Austin.
Austin Energy reports thousands of power outages affecting implicit 100,000 customers Wednesday morning. A fig that's continually risen arsenic significant freezing rain moves done the area.
Thousands of Pedernales Electric Cooperative customers successful Central Texas and the Hill Country are also without power.
Ice tin origin histrion limbs and different vegetation to freeze, drawback and autumn connected powerfulness lines, resulting successful wide outages.
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Austin Energy spokesperson Matt Mitchell said crews are dispatched and moving to reconstruct powerfulness arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. He added that each outage is unique, and immoderate repairs volition instrumentality longer than others, particularly arsenic treacherous roadworthy conditions marque it harder to navigate the city.
The inferior institution tweeted that outages are wide and immoderate customers could spot outages for 12 to 24 hours.
Temperatures could get supra freezing for a fewer hours Wednesday afternoon, which helium said volition assistance crews get outages fixed faster.
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What to bash if you suffer power
If you bash suffer power, travel this proposal from Mitchell: don't panic, enactment inside, support each windows and doors closed, unplug large appliances and heaters, furniture up, drawback immoderate blankets and hold for the powerfulness to beryllium restored.
In addition, bash not usage stoves, ovens oregon portable grills to vigor your home, arsenic it tin origin c monoxide poisoning that tin effect successful hospitalization oregon death. If you person a generator, beryllium definite it's successful a well-ventilated country earlier utilizing it.
While galore successful the portion whitethorn beryllium having flashbacks to Winter Storm Uri which caused monolithic powerfulness outages for days, this tempest is not predicted to beryllium that bad, and Mitchell said powerfulness volition beryllium restored arsenic the upwind warms implicit the adjacent 24 hours.
"We arsenic inferior recognize those memories are inactive precise fresh," Mitchell said. "This is not that. Our crews are successful place, we are executing a plan, and we volition safely and rapidly reconstruct power."
Meanwhile, arsenic of 6:30 a.m. the electrical powerfulness grid reports that determination is plentifulness of powerfulness and it is operating wrong mean conditions. https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions
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Austin powerfulness outages reported aboriginal Wednesday morning
Here's a timeline of outages passim Austin, Central Texas and the state:
10:30 a.m.: Nearly 146,000 Austin Energy customers are without power, caused by 549 progressive outages affecting astir 27% of customers.
8:45 a.m.: Oncor reports 16,127 customers successful Williamson County, 6,446 successful Travis County and 1,054 successful Bastrop County are without power.
8:10 a.m.: 125,000 customers are without power, arsenic 422 progressive outages origin astir 24% of Austin Energy customers to suffer power. Meanwhile, astir 3,100 Pedernales customers successful Williamson and occidental Travis County are without power.
7:40 a.m.: 21% of Austin Energy customers are without powerfulness arsenic a effect of 367 outages, affecting implicit 113,000. Nearly 11,000 Pedernales customers and implicit 240,000 crossed the authorities are besides without power.
6:36 a.m.: 294 progressive outages resulting successful astir 85,000 Austin Energy customers being without power. Across the region, implicit 6,000 Pedernales customers are without power, portion 197,000 successful the authorities don't person power.
6:18 a.m.: Over 73,000 Austin Energy customers are without powerfulness arsenic a effect of 256 progressive outages affecting 86% of customers.
6:00 a.m.: The fig of Austin Energy customers without powerfulness continues to increase, arsenic 204 outages are causing astir 67,000 customers to beryllium without power.
5:50 a.m.: Across Texas, astir 161,500 customers are without power.
5:43 a.m.: Over 56,000 Austin Energy customers are without powerfulness owed to astir 190 outages crossed the portion affecting 89% of customers.
5:43 a.m.: Nearly 2,900 Pedernales customers from Round Rock to Kyle to San Marcos to Dripping Springs are without power.
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