CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Crew with AEP Texas are working to restore power across several areas in South Texas.
As of 1:50 p.m., AEP crews are working on large outages on the Northwest side of Corpus Christi, the Odem area and the Calallen area, according to the AEP outage map.
Power is expected to be restored by 3:30 p.m., however, AEP said this could change.
Omar Lopez with AEP Texas said strong weather conditions can create the perfect conditions for power outages.
whenever there is a weather event like this, which may not seem like severe weather at first because there is no rain or lightening, but the winds are definitely strong," Lopez said. "And we will be looking at high winds up until this evening. We will all be on call and watching everything carefully."
High winds in the area could be contributing the outages.
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