Austin – days after the harsh weather hit the Austin Metro area, many residents still find themselves without strength.
As of Saturday night, Austin Energy More than a thousand Austin’s energy customers appear without energy. Chris Phillips is one of the population without strength living in the northwest of Austin.
“We hope. We continue to get reports that Austin Energy is making a lot of progress,” Philips said.
One of Philips’s concerns with the power outage was to maintain calm, as the Austin Metro has witnessed temperatures in the eighties and nineties since the storm. Philips said that he was insisting of grass grass as a result of heat.
“I just thought, if I was going to differentiate inside, I may also be fruitful and sweat outside,” said Philips.
Matt Shawkat is another resident in the northwest of Austin, and he hoped that there would be more communication from the city about the period when the power outages would continue.
“He is very miserable,” said Shawkat. “If they told me three days ago when this happened – it would be for four or five days – I would have been dealing with this very differently. You don’t like shooting at a generator and a kind of these things for four or five days. I would go to a hotel.”
Austin Energy said on Social media They are planning to move to “Phase 3” of restoration on Sunday, which means that the crews will focus “on the most complex restoration efforts and take a long time.” They said that such efforts could take hours to repair and restore energy for residents at a slower pace.
Ostin also energy He announced on social media that they will host a societal event On Sunday, “Useful Resources and Information” provides storms. The event will take place in Austin Energy headquarters From 12 to 4 pm on Sunday.