More than 10,000 power outages hit the Coastal Bend Thursday morning, and with hurricane season beginning June 1, emergency management experts and residents say now is the time to prepare — not when the storm is already at your door.
AEP Texas reported outages peaking at about 11,000 customers affected, stretching from Alice to Corpus Christi. Many of those outages were addressed by the afternoon.
Coastal Bend power outages serve as a reminder to prepare before hurricane season begins
Omar Lopez of AEP Texas said the utility was ready before the first storm cell arrived.
“Before this wave of storms hit we had over 250 linemen positioned all over the service territory just knowing we’d have to respond to some of these outages potentially,” Lopez said…