Greater than 250,000 houses and companies had been with out energy in Texas early Wednesday because the Lone Star state continued to battle frigid temperatures and freezing rain.
In Travis County alone, which homes the state capital of Austin, greater than 130,000 prospects had been with out energy as of about 7:30 a.m. CT, as the realm braced for the second day of the winter storm.
Greater than 30,000 outages had been reported in Williamson and Bexar counties, in accordance with USA TODAY Community’s energy outage database.
Dwell updates:230,000 with out energy in Texas, 1,800 flights canceled, at the very least 6 useless as winter storm sweeps US
Texas energy outage map tracker
As of about 8:20 a.m. CT, greater than 251,000 prospects throughout the state didn’t have energy, per outage monitoring web site PowerOutage.us.
Ice storm warning in impact
Ice may cause tree limbs to freeze, snap and fall on energy strains, leading to mass outages.
As of about 7:30 a.m. native time the state’s electrical energy grid reported loads of energy and confirmed it was working inside regular situations.
Electrical Reliability Council of Texas manages the circulate of electrical energy to greater than 26 million Texas prospects – representing about 90 % of the state’s electrical load.
Dwell updates:250,000 with out energy in Texas, 1,800 flights canceled, at the very least 6 useless as winter storm sweeps US
An ice storm warning was in impact till Thursday morning in elements of north and central Texas, with largely freezing rain and sleet anticipated within the space, the Nationwide Climate Service in Fort Price warned. The climate service warned that “important” icing is anticipated, with accumulations reaching as much as one-half inch.
Some winter storm warnings had been set to carry by midday on Wednesday, the climate service stated.
However energy outages and tree harm had been nonetheless seemingly on account of ice within the space, and officers warned that drivers ought to hold an additional flashlight, meals and water in of their autos.
The Lone Star freeze of 2021
This is not the primary time Texas has been slammed with freezing rain and mass outages.
In February 2021, winter climate introduced document freezing temperatures to the state, left 4 million prospects with out electrical energy and nearly half the state’s 29 million individuals beneath boil water advisories.
A minimum of 210 individuals died in the course of the outages and freezing climate.
Texas dying toll from freeze:Demise toll from Texas February snowstorm climbs to 210, state officers say
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