A severe weather-related outage left nearly 8,000 Bluebonnet Electric customers in southeastern Travis County without electricity Thursday night, with most service restored by early Friday morning.

Texas is known nationwide for its grueling hot summers. However, hurricanes and occasional winter weather can have a harsher impact on citizens and infrastructure due to the effects of power outages.

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A screenshot of the Texas Disaster Information System live power outage map. The tool works by collecting power outage information from utility companies and other outage-reporting services and ...