There are approximately 27,092 customers without power in the Orange County area. There are now a total of 167 workers in the field in Orange, Vidor and surrounding areas. Damage in these areas includes broken poles, damaged transformers, power lines down, damaged transmission lines and trees on power lines.
Three substations remain out due to transmission lines being damaged. Some areas impacted by the substation outages include downtown, Old Town, Lamar and Front Street, 16th Street, as well as Little Cypress, Bridge City, West Orange, Mauriceville, McLewis and Winfree. Large sections of customers will be restored as power returns to these substations.
Water is receding in the Cove area and crews are now repairing downed poles, lines and broken equipment to restore power. Additional workers will be scouting for areas where water has receded and it is safe to restore power.
In the Vidor area, approximately 85 percent of customers are now without power since last night after losing most of the transmission power lines serving the substations. Additional flooding has increased flood water depth from two feet to six feet of water. Significant progress was made assessing damage yesterday and workers are performing aerial inspections of transmission lines in the Vidor area to identify areas requiring repairs. In Orang flooded and inaccessible areas are being scouted by helicopter and boat.
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