Texas ice storm: Outages continue as crews work to restore power

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Officials with Austin Energy say 100 crews are working to get power back on, but they're not sure when the work will be done.

Austin Energy power outage crisis blamed on city's environmental policies, property owners

Circuit breaks lit up the night sky during the ice storm as an estimated 265,000 Austin Energy customers lost power.

 

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My area outage impacts at least 1,500 residences and major intersection traffic lights (4 major wrecks requiring AFD and APD so far). We have not see any crew working anything….get it together.

Please run a story on oncor and their lack of communication and broken power outage reporting system.

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