More than 94% of Austin Energy customers currently have power, but according to Austin Energy's outage map, 29,997 customers still remain without power thanks to 1,381 active outages as of 10:30 p.m. Feb. 5."I wasn’t concerned this time, I was like oh, it’s going to get cold, bring the sensitive plants in, cover stuff and that sort of thing, I thought the roads would get bad," she told FOX 7 Austin. "It didn’t seem like it was going to be a big deal.
"The broadcast was 12 to 24 hours outage, so we were like okay, we can hold off on that, but I have to admit I was skeptical knowing that it was ice," she said. "I thought that was overly optimistic, so we're waiting a little while it got down to about 49 degrees in the house and then it was like okay, we’ve got to break out the heater."
The 12th? As in a week from now? Goodness we suck.
The fucking 12th
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