Friday morning, Austin Energy had less than 2 dozen homes without power, but now that number has jumped to 7,772.
This morning, Austin Energy had around 3 dozen homes without power, but around by 5:25 a.m. that number jumped to 7,772.that impacted nearly 7,500 customers and traffic lights in the area.
It started around 5:25 a.m. in an area near William Cannon and South 1st Street. By 6:50 a.m., that outage appeared to be fixed and the total number of impacted customers was down to 290 customers. Austin Energy says the South Austin outage was the result of a circuit lock out, but they still don't know what caused it., "A circuit lockout is like a breaker tripping in your home to isolate the trouble spot & protect the rest of the system. The system is designed to de-energize if something happens on the circuit enabling crews to make necessary repairs safely."
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