Local power providers in Central Texas reported relatively few outages during the weekend's winter storm, with the majority of outages caused by lightning and dust, and very few related to ice ...

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Power outages can come from winter storms, heat waves, wildfires or a delivery driver backing into the power line by your house. But depending on how long they last or what the temperature is outside, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Lightning and dust — not ice and downed trees — were the cause of a few major outages in Central Texas during this ...