HOUSTON — Crews have been working to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses that lost electricity during Texas storms.
CenterPoint Energy reported about 1,000 customers without power Friday afternoon, down from almost 9,000 outages around dawn.
About 3,000 Austin Energy customers lost electricity during storms since Thursday night, but utility officials say that number had dwindled to a few dozen by Friday.
Oncor (ON'-kor) reported nearly 1,900 customers without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, plus Central Texas and the Midland-Odessa area.
Authorities say an apparent tornado touched down in the Southeast Texas town of Weimar (WY'-mer) late Thursday. Eight people in a trailer in a school parking lot were slightly hurt.