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Power restored after outage in Texas City, La Marque

Texas-New Mexico Power posted around 6 p.m. that they were "restoring a large outage underway."

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TEXAS CITY, Texas -- A large power outage was reported in Texas City and La Marque on Wednesday evening.

Texas-New Mexico Power posted around 6 p.m. that they were "restoring a large outage underway." They initially hoped to have the power back to all customers by 8:30 p.m., but later estimated it would be closer to midnight.

TxCity & LM: crews working on large outage. Early est (S2C) is all affected customers will be restored by 830pm. We appreciate cold wx makes more frustrating. Crews will make repairs as quickly as can safely do.
— Texas-NM Power (@TNMP) January 17, 2018

TxCity/LM update: Sorry to say, but more customers out. Our crews had to do this to safely make repairs. Other crews working on routing power around problem & restore as many as possible as quickly as can be done safely.
— Texas-NM Power (@TNMP) January 18, 2018

TxCity & LM: Restoration work continuing. Slow & methodical work. Current estimate now midnight. We know many of you are cold. All hands available on working it.
— Texas-NM Power (@TNMP) January 18, 2018

Shortly after 12 a.m. the power distributor confirmed electricity was fully restored to the area.