Austin officials compared damage from fallen trees and iced-over power lines to tornadoes as they came under criticism for slow repairs and shifting timelines to restore power.
More than 250,000 customers across the state lacked power early Friday, down from 430,000 on Thursday, according to PowerOutage.us.
Pauline Frerich, also of Spring Branch, told KSAT that she had no way to prepare a meal without electricity, and that she worries about the cost of replacing hundreds of dollars of spoiled food. As the storm swept over this week, the indoor temperature fell to 29 degrees , and the sounds of tree limbs breaking unsettled her."And you didn’t know, was it on the roof, was it just in the yard?" Frerich told KSAT. "But it’s very nerve-wracking.
The worst wind chills in the populated areas of the Northeast shouldn’t go lower than minus 40 , he said.
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