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Texas ice storm: Austin FC goalkeeper among those without power Saturday
ST. PAUL, MN – AUGUST 20: Brad Stuver #1 of Austin FC with the ball throughout a sport between Austin FC and Minnesota United FC at Allianz Subject on August 20, 2022 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photograph by Jeremy Olson/ISI Photographs/Getty Photos)
AUSTIN, Texas – Energy outages in Central Texas from this week’s ice storm are affecting everybody, even Austin FC goalkeeper Brad Stuver.
Stuver took to Twitter Saturday evening to report that he has been with out energy for simply over three days, however that in accordance with Austin Vitality’s outage map, the primary report was obtained Saturday.
“No energy for 76 hours however @austinenergy says the primary report of our outage was 2 hours in the past…so thats irritating,” Stuver tweeted. “Completely satisfied for all these being restored. Hoping all those nonetheless with out are doing okay!”
In accordance with Austin Vitality’s outage map, as of seven:42 p.m. Feb. 4, 54,692 clients are nonetheless with out energy, due to 1,634 energetic outages. Outages have been reported as north as SH 45 close to Cedar Park, south as Creedmoor, west because the Hills and Lakeway and as east as Webberville.
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Austin Vitality stated Saturday night that further contractors have arrived to assist lineworkers from Austin Vitality and neighboring utilities, together with New Braunfels Utilities, CenterPoint Vitality and Renegade to revive energy. The utility is warning residents that restoring energy to a single circuit might be a multi-day effort as a result of tools probably being in hard-to-reach areas like a greenbelt or buried underneath extraordinarily heavy particles.