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Approximately 250 people wait in line to get into the H-E-B at E. Riverside on Feb. 19. The line stretched the length of the store, down and back the side of the store, and out to the street. (photo by Jana Birchum)
With power restored to more than 96% of
Austin Energy customers, local leaders’ priority has shifted to restoring water service to Austin residents in the wake of the Texas winter storm crisis.
Austin Energy General Manager
Jackie Sargent reported that as of noon on Friday, Feb. 19, just 22,000 of the public utility’s customers were without power, down from 10 times that number – approximately 42% of the utility’s customers – at the worst point of the crisis Tuesday. Early Friday morning, the
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Austinites trudge through the aftermath of the first of a series of winter storms that have pummeled the state since Sunday, disrupting power and water supplies for hundreds of thousands of Central Texans. (Photo by John Anderson)
By Wednesday night, most of Austin was dealing with four overlapping crises: the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the arrival of winter storms that brought the coldest weather in decades, the near collapse of the state electricity grid, and water system failures that forced a citywide boil water notice. Each of these helped make the others worse.
While COVID-19 infections have leveled off from the surges of previous weeks, area hospitals were nearly full before the storm hit. As the electric grid crisis forced nearly half of Austin into darkness and cold for three full days, residents dependent on power-driven medical equipment were forced to call 911 to be transported to hospitals. Many other Austinites required emergency medical care from
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