Crews From Far And Wide Converge On North Texas After Wind Damage Caused Tens Of Thousands To Lose Power – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Crews from West Texas and out of state made their strategy to North Texas Thursday evening, Oct. 28 to help Oncor Electrical in restoring energy.

Tens of thousands of power outages have made for a very busy day.

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When Nahira Gomez began seeing the wind decide up this morning, she bought nervous.

“The principle factor I thought of was the bushes simply breaking off and damaging my automotive,” she mentioned.

Then her North Dallas house misplaced energy and her thoughts instantly went again to final February.

“I’ve flashbacks concerning the winter storm storm and I’m Puerto Rican so when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico as nicely so with out energy we can’t make something at residence,” she mentioned.

“The entire road, no person has energy so I’m fairly certain everyone’s annoyed proper now,” her neighbor mentioned.

“We’re working as rapidly and safely as we are able to to get the ability again on, however it’s begin and cease work,” Oncor Spokesperson Grant Cruise mentioned.

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When winds decide up, Oncor crews are sometimes having to take a break when the state of affairs turns into unsafe. And in some instances – they’re additionally coping with flying particles.

“A few days in the past we had vital rainfall for our space and so the bottom is softened,” Cruise mentioned.

“Even when the wind isn’t fully pushing a tree over it would push it simply far sufficient in order that it is available in contact with our gear.”

He mentioned restore occasions will fluctuate relying on the severity of the problem.

“If a tree falls and pulls down a line, that may be a reasonably fast restore,” he mentioned. “If a tree falls on a pole and knocks it over and crushes a transformer, that’s a extra vital restore”

When the wind dies down, crews will actually be capable to work so much quicker.

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POWER OUTAGES AS OF 9:40 P.M. THURSDAY

Collin County       1,416

Dallas County      13,031

Denton County    694

Tarrant County    8,898