Austin Energy is 'cautiously optimistic' about repairs, but 110,000 customers still don't have power.
. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson also said he will sign a disaster declaration. These declarations can help the local governments access federal funds for recovery efforts.
“It is my top priority to ensure that Travis County has a robust and resilient recovery to this storm as soon as possible," Brown said.faced a number of obstacles in restoring outages, including dangerous road conditions and falling trees causing repeated outages, Sargent said. Sometimes a second outage can occur if circuits become overloaded when lights, electronics and thermostats left on before an outage suddenly turn on at once. To avoid this so-called “cold load pickup,” Sargent said customers without power should turn off their thermostats, unplug fixtures or appliances, and just leave one light on that’ll signal when the power is back.
Throughout the storm, the city has come under fire for a lack of sufficient communication. The first news conference about the storm came Thursday morning, three days after the storm began. Prior, updates were largely disseminated on social media, like“I want to start by saying that as mayor, I accept responsibility on behalf of the city, and I apologize that we’ve let the people down in Austin,” he said.
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