More than 7,000 customers in the area were affected at the height of the outages, according to CPS Energy.
A CPS Energy mobile support center provides shelter, food, coffee and power for those without electricity in Fair Oaks Ranch.Fair Oaks Ranch residents, thousands of whom lost power Wednesday night, came close to having to boil their water as well.
CPS Energy was able to connect some customers to other circuits, but had to wait on LCRA to get damaged lines and equipment fixed before it could restore power to others. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.Though ice had finally started to melt across the San Antonio area, the storm left visible damage across neighborhoods. Many trees and shrubs were destroyed by the ice; others lost limbs to the heavy ice accumulation, obstructing driveways.
Gary Nix stood outside his Timberwood Park home talking to landscapers who had just arrived to address an oak tree that crashed into his daughter’s bedroom the day before. David Rodriguez Jr. cuts down branches from a heritage live oak that fell in the Timberwood Park neighborhood.“We moved into this neighborhood because of the trees, but this is kind of crazy,” he said.
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