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Business owner expresses concerns for continued outages
Feb. 19, 2021
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KinderClub Learning Center TOO, LLC has been closed this week due to being without electricity and water.CourtesyShow MoreShow Less
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Businesses already adjusting to the pandemic faced additional challenges this week as winter storms are having a drastic impact across Texas.
“We have been without light and water since the beginning of the week, and we have been unable to provide our services for our customers,” said Veronica Valdez, owner of the childcare facility KinderClub Learning Center TOO, LLC.
Valdez is one of several owners around the Gateway City who have expressed how the continued effects of the winter storm have affected her business significantly to the point of possibly losing great revenue and causing many of her employees to not work.
AEP explains why some Laredoans have experienced prolonged blackouts
Feb. 18, 2021
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Motorists navigate through the Arkansas Avenue and East Saunders Street intersection during a black out affecting multiple parts of Laredo, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, as Laredo experiences freezing temperatures following a winter storm.Danny Zaragoza/Laredo Morning TimesShow MoreShow Less
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Laredo Police officers monitor the intersection of Bob Bullock Loop and Highway 359, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, as Laredo continues to experience a black out throughout parts of the city.Danny Zaragoza/Laredo Morning TimesShow MoreShow Less
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Laredo City Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the power outages that have plagued the city and to issue a boil water notice for the Highway 359 area.
Thousands of homes in Laredo have power restored
Feb. 18, 2021
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Motorists navigate through the Arkansas Avenue and East Saunders Street intersection during a black out affecting multiple parts of Laredo, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, as Laredo experiences freezing temperatures following a winter storm.Danny Zaragoza, Staff Photographer / Laredo Morning Times
AEP Texas was able to return power to 150,000 customers across the state late Wednesday and early Thursday, including over 15,000 homes and businesses in Webb County.
AEP services all of South Texas, parts of West Texas and North Texas east of the Panhandle. At the apex of this crisis Tuesday morning, 468,000 of their customers were left without power. As of 10:15 a.m. Thursday, 124,000 customers are still without, according to a news release.