As Austin recovers from last week's ice storm, officials say another front Tuesday could further cripple the city's electrical infrastructure.
"I'm sorry for how long this is taking. I wish I could give a specific estimate for each specific outage. We know it's hard to plan daily life without that," she said."Unfortunately, the complexity and severity of ice storm damage on each individual outage just hasn't allowed us to give a more granular estimate for restoration."
"The wind gusts could be 40, 45-miles-an-hour, and that gives us concern just because what we’re seeing with the trees," he said."It makes it more challenging and more time-consuming and more hazardous."At a news conference later Tuesday, Sargent noted the weather would have to be"pretty significant" for workers to be benched.
Austin Resource Recovery said it could be months before all the storm debris is collected and that calls for service in the past week have already dwarfed calls after the 2021 storm.
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