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Many in Austin, Travis County, with no power
Travis County, which houses the state capital of Austin, remained the focal point of the outages Thursday. More than 176,000 customers – more than a quarter of the energy customers in the county – were without power as of about 2 p.m. CT, as temperatures started to rise above freezing.
More than 68,000 outages were reported in Williamson County, just north of Austin.
In Smith County, home of Tyler, about 32,000 customers were without power, and in Bell County, located between Austin and Waco, about 25,000 were in the dark, according to USA TODAY Network’s power outage database as of Noon CT.
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Texas power outage map
As of about 12:00 p.m. CT, about 432,000 customers across the state did not have power, per outage tracking website PowerOutage.us.
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An ice storm warning was in effect Thursday in western north and central Texas. The warning was set to lift at 9 a.m. CT Thursday, though power outages and tree damage across the area were still possible due to the ice.
Contributing: Marina Pitofsky and Jay Cannon, USA TODAY.
Natalie Neysa Alund covers trending news for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund.
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