CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — More than 2,000 American Electric Power Texas customers in the Flour Bluff area were left without power Thursday morning due to a downed power pole.
The outage happened around 10:30 a.m. Thursday and affected all Flour Bluff Independent School District campuses and nearby residents for about an hour. According to Nueces County ESD #2, AEP Texas crews were called to repair a downed power line at Waldron Road and Glenoak.
"We communicated the information as soon as the power went out, that we were under a power outage, and then we provided a couple of updates and then a final update to say that the power was back on," said Kim Sneed, public information officer for Flour Bluff ISD.
Flour Bluff ISD reported that power was restored to campuses around 11:30 a.m. Students were all safe and able to return to a regular schedule.
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