Thunderstorms sweeping across El Paso County, Texas left thousands of El Paso Electric customers without power, causing an immediate risk for residents who depend on electricity for essential services like air conditioning, refrigerated food, and medical equipment.
KFOX14/CBS4 reported that the heaviest outages were in East El Paso and the far eastern part of El Paso County.
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At 10:15 p.m., El Paso Electric’s outage map showed 7,076 residents without power across multiple outages, a total KFOX14/CBS4 described as nearly 8,000 customers.
Restoration timing had not been announced at the time of this report, and El Paso Electric had not confirmed whether the thunderstorms were directly responsible. The utility’s outage map showed most of the outages in East El Paso and the far eastern part of El Paso County…