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Southwestern Electric Power Company workers and contractors continue to restore power to approximately 19,000 customers without service following a winter storm that brought freezing rain, ice, sleet and snow to the ArkLaTex.
Ice and snow brought down multiple trees and wires, particularly in the hardest-hit areas of Central Louisiana. Customers are reminded to stay away from downed lines and keep children and pets away as well. Report downed lines immediately to SWEPCO at 1-888-218-3919.
âRestoration work in our hardest-hit areas of DeSoto, Natchitoches and Sabine parishes has been slow going due to the ice and snow on the roads, but rising temperatures today and tomorrow will improve road conditions enabling us to speed up work,â said Drew Seidel, SWEPCO vice president of Region Distribution Operations. âWe appreciate the continued patience of customers as SWEPCO employees and contractors work as safely and quickly as possible to get their lig
ERCOT Power Outage Map, Updates as Over 600,000 in Texas Without Power
On 2/18/21 at 7:29 AM EST
Around 640,000 energy customers in Texas are still facing power outages. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) says it is making progress in the matter, restoring power to around 1.6 million households yesterday.
ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness said in a statement released on Wednesday: We are working around the clock to restore power to Texan. We made progress today, but it will not be good enough until every person has their power back.
ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin added: We re at a point in the restoration where we re going to keep energizing circuits as fast as we safely can until we run out of available generation. We hope to make significant progress overnight.
Millions of Texans yesterday began their third day without heat in the wake of a punishing winter storm that has killed at least 21 people, as icy conditions threatened to plague the country s largest state and the surrounding region for days.
This week s storms and cold — with more still predicted for the east and south — fit a pattern of worsening extremes seen in recent years. Have we done enough