Less than 1,000 customers across the AEP Texas service area spanning south and west Texas were without power at 3:30 p.m. today due to the cold front that swept through the area Thursday night.
 
This morning, about 24,000 customers were without power from the Victoria area to Port Isabel. That number has steadily decreased throughout the day as crews worked to get customers back in service.
 
High winds, freezing precipitation and trees were the culprit for most of the outages.
 
Bruce Evans, vice president of AEP Texas electric distribution, said that essentially all customers, except in isolated instances, should have power by 6 p.m.
 
Customers who are still without power are asked to call the AEP Texas Customer Solutions Center at 1-866-223-8508 and report their outage to ensure it has been logged.
 
The remaining outages affecting from 100 to 300 customers are confined to Beeville, Bay City and Victoria. AEP Texas crews have reduced the number of outages in the Rio Grande Valley to less than 100. Most of those remaining outages were in the Weslaco and Pharr areas.