21-02-2017 04:22 via kxan.com

Power restored almost 24 hours after storms

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After violent storms ripped through Austin, around 30,000 customers reported outages. Austin Energy says all but 12 of their customers now have their lights back on.
It took an estimated 24 hours to restore power after trees fell on power lines and in some cases, electric poles snapped in half.
“Around the airport around 11 o’clock and midnight we had really high with winds in fact we had a 58 mph wind gust,” Robert Cullick, an Austin Energy spok
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