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Austin Energy customers near Rainey Street were without power after an 18-wheeler truck took out multiple power lines and poles Wednesday. An Austin Energy spokesperson said 2,000 customers were initially without power. As of 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, that number was down to just over 200. Multiple crews... See More are working to fix the issue.

Outage link: outagemap.austinenergy.com
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Published: 2023-01-11 See Less

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As of this morning, Austin Energy reported about 150 customers without power, less than 1% of its total customers. The outages, which did not specify if they were weather-related, had improved from earlier in the evening when about 1,800 Austin Energy customers were without power. The bulk... See More of those customers — 1,324 of them — were in Southeast Austin
Pedernales Electric Cooperative hovered around 950 customers without power, an increase from the 345-plus customers who were without power at midnight.


Austin Energy outage map: outagemap.austinenergy.com
Pedernales Electric Cooperative outage map: outages.pec.coop

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Published: 2022-12-22 See Less

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More than 18,000 Austin Energy customers were without power Wednesday morning, according the utility's online outage map. About 11 separate outages that began around 8:52 a.m., affecting 18,291 customers, appeared to be clustered in South Austin, north of William Cannon Drive and south of Texas 71, between... See More West Gate Boulevard and Interstate 35.

Outage link: outagemap.austinenergy.com
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Published: 2022-11-30 See Less

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Power has returned to nearly 20,000 people, including seven Austin ISD campuses, due to an outage in South Austin early this morning. One of the utility's South Austin substations had a power discrepancy this morning. A failsafe was activated at 8:45 a.m. to shut the substation down... See More before the discrepancy could cause damage, which led to a massive outage. Austin Energy is investigating the cause. As of 10:37 a.m., power was restored across the affected area.

Outage link: outagemap.austinenergy.com
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Published: 2022-11-30 See Less

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According to the Austin Energy outage map, 6,073 customers were without power at some point Monday morning, with most of them concentrated in the 78733 and 78746 ZIP codes along Bee Caves Road and Lake Austin. As of 7:06 a.m., all power had been restored to those... See More customers, according to the map.

Outage link: outagemap.austinenergy.com
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Published: 2022-10-31 See Less

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I received this online scam. The message came via Facebook:

"Hi, I am agent smith moore thanks for contacting us we've received your message as we and appreciate you getting in touch.
Please! kindly get back to me with your full-name to check if you're eligible on... See More the program?"

It was forwarded to me from a Facebook friend - turns out the scammers hacked my friends Facebook account and were sending this message from them to their friends, so it seems 'trusted'

This friend/acquaintance is an influential /trused person in the community, not sure if they are targeting these kind of people to hack to improve their scam success rate.

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Nearly 2,000 Austin Energy customers are being affected by an outage near Interstate 35 and Cesar Chavez Street in downtown Austin Tuesday, according to the utility’s outage map. A total of 1,980 customers were without power as of 12:40 p.m. The map showed the estimated time of... See More restoration to be around 2:15 p.m.

Outage link: outagemap.austinenergy.com
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Published: 2022-09-27 See Less

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A vehicle hit a pole near a northwest Austin school early Monday morning, knocking out power to the campus and nearby neighborhood, according to Austin Energy. Crews responded at 2:30 a.m. after the pole was struck just before 1 a.m. at the corner of Amherst and Cassady... See More Drives. The utility’s outage map shows the outage is still affecting 84 customers in the area as of 9 a.m. Monday. Originally, 300 customers were without power because of the crash.

Outage link: outagemap.austinenergy.com
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Published: 2022-09-26 See Less

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I got this covid booster, and flu shot at the same time. Zero side effects so far, and I am on day 3 now. I assume by now I am in the clear. The picture says moderna, but he assured me it was the pfizer. See Less

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