She said she was debating whether to find a hotel despite the icy roads. She said the fire was especially jarring for her and her two kids because her family is from California, where downed power lines sometimes cause huge wildfires.įirefighters came and taped off the part of her yard her family should avoid while the line was restored. By 3 p.m., that number was down to fewer than 200 in Rollingwood and West Lake Hills, west of Austin.Īshley Johnson, who lives just north of West Lake Hills near the Colorado River, said she lost power Thursday morning after a transformer blew in her backyard and power lines went down and caught fire. However, Austin Energy - which at one point had as many as 3,200 customers without power -shortly after noon on Thursday reported that about 2,300 people in Central Austin had just lost power. and 11 a.m., with power companies restoring electricity to many homes before noon. The majority of the outages occurred between 7 a.m. Some residents in Travis, Hays, Bastrop and Williamson counties on Thursday first lost power around dawn as temperatures dipped below freezing. The majority of Central Texas residents stayed in their homes Thursday to avoid traveling on icy roads, but a few thousand of them were doing that without electricity in their homes. More: 'One big PTSD episode': With winter storm looming, #TexasFreeze trends on Twitter Central Texas endures power outages More than 60 low water crossings across the region closed Thursday because of flooding.
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Both the driver and firefighter who did the rescuing declined to go to the hospital. While few wrecks were reported by Thursday afternoon in Travis County, a driver in Manor was rescued after a vehicle went into water on Gregg Lane. One of the fires Thursday was at a home in Mustang Ridge, where firefighters also responded to several trash fires, a shed fire and a chicken coop fire.Īn updated list on the numbers of fires, traffic wrecks and injuries related to the cold weather would be available Friday, according to the Fire Department. Thursday, Austin Fire Department crews responded to 298 incidents, including 17 fires, 45 traffic wrecks and injuries, and five calls about wires arcing, fire officials said. During some of the worst conditions, from 9 a.m. Nearly 3 inches of freezing rain and sleet soaked Austin late Wednesday into Thursday. Baylor Scott & White emergency rooms also were not seeing many storm-related cases, officials reported.
David's Healthcare hospitals, wait times stayed under 10 minutes. More: Austin ISD the latest district to announce winter weather closures Thursday, FridayĪt Ascension Seton emergency rooms, hospital officials said Thursday that it was business as usual without an uptick on cold-specific emergencies.
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