FRIENDSWOOD, Texas – About 35,000 residents in League City, Friendswood and Alvin found themselves in the dark Tuesday afternoon after a power outage. The power went out in all three areas around noon. Officials in Friendswood confirmed that the city offices were a part of the outage, which affected areas serviced by Texas New Mexico Power Company in northern Galveston County and parts of Brazoria County. By 2 p.m., the power was starting to come back on. Officials with ERCOT said the outage occurred during planned repairs. They expected to be able to reroute the power so a minimal amount of customers would be affected, but while they were working an unexpected disruption occurred.
jermaustin said on November 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM
All power seems to have been restored at around 1:34 PM CST
sugarlipz41586 said on November 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Yup, been on here since 1:35. It came on once, then went back off and then on to stay so far. YAY for A/C and hot food! Why was the helicopter over my house for so long going in circles?
alvingirl said on November 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM
i live in alvin and ch 13 helicopter kept circling over my block. glad we have power again, but still cant get through to my kids school
sugarlipz41586 said on November 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Chanel 2, 11 and I think it was 13 was over our block and house for an hour. It was kind of scary, they were so low. I think it's because we live right next to the substation.
alvingirl said on November 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM
i only seen ch 13 near my house. i watched the news at 4 though and they didnt even show anything
caringprsn said on November 11, 2009 at 2:01 AM
"During a Planned Repairs" ???!!! Why didn't they care about a widespread outage? The inconvenience this caused and not to mention the medical situation on my end. I needed to use my emergency inhaler, and worry whether I should use my portable oxygen. And my biggest worry, was my Parrot "son" ! I was due to leave for the Dr. but so worried of leaving him in a closed in home. When I called New Mexico Power, their Lovely (?) recording said a widespread outage was in Alvin, League City & Friendswood & approx. ON time would be 2 hrs!!! Thank God it was just 1 hr. But 1 hr. of inconvenience & HOT. I saw the helicopters, but didn't know who or what they were flying around for. My neighbor called her children's school via cell phone & was told to come pick them up, as they were'nt able to get them all fed & cooled. So she picked them up. Thanks alot New Mexico Power or whoever PLANNED these repairs!.
zerobug said on November 11, 2009 at 6:43 AM
caringprsn: Would you rather the power go out for greater lengths of time because lack of maintained? 1 hr is fast compared to center point.... It takes them 3 hours to get our power back on when there is a transformer problem. count your self lucky.
madeintexas said on November 11, 2009 at 9:39 AM
They say two hours and it is back on in one hour and yet people still complain.