City Manager Spencer Cronk says Austin Energy and its out-of-state partners continue working around the clock to restore power, but that many remaining outages are very complex.
"In some cases, broken equipment is under piles of debris, and we've had poles that snap from the weight of ice or the force of a falling tree. And those projects can take an entire crew a full day to repair," said Cronk.
The city did provide emergency shelter for nearly 1,900 homeless people at the height of the storm, but many are wondering why it took so long to get resources up and running for other residents. "You'll be able to see from how we have looked at the after action report from winter storm Uri and how ice and energy in particular has really adopted and implemented many of those recommendations, if not all," said Cronk.The utility said crews are working around the clock to bring that number down to zero.
City council is set to take up an emergency item Thursday morning to "evaluate" Cronk’s employment in light of the outage response.Smith says the combination of the botched city response two years ago, plus the current debacle, could mean Cronk is out.
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