Some Texans may have to wait a week for their power to be restored during a heat wave. tx severewx sweather kprc2 click2hou
Longview, TX in August 2018. More than 30,000 residents are still out of power as of Sunday afternoon in Gregg County, where Longview is located. Some Texans in East Texas may have to wait up to a week to have their power restored., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
More than 100,000 households and businesses in East Texas are still without power amid a heat wave after severe storms hit the region early Friday morning. An Enhanced Fujita-1 tornado measuring a half-mile wide caused severe damage to homes in Panola County in East Texas on Friday before moving to northwest Louisiana. The tornado had winds up to 110 mph with a 7.78-mile path length, according toSome additional severe storms swept through East Texas over the weekend with lightning, wind damage and hail.
The tornado and subsequent storms caused major damage to the power grid provider’s transmission system, a backbone of the energy delivery network. Transmission lines, which deliver power from power plants, are out of service due to tree damage. Utility poles and distribution wires are also down. Of the 110,000 Texas households and businesses without power, the majority were customers of grid provider Southwestern Electric Power Co., according to. Southwestern Electric Power Co. is independent of Texas’ main electric grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. East Texas, the upper Panhandle and El Paso are on separate power grids because of their remoteness and the history of utility service territories.
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