UPDATE: Power restored to AEP customers in McAllen
EDITOR'S NOTE: On Tuesday, Nov. 7, the AEP outage map showed power was restored to customers affected by the transmission failure at around 5 p.m.
AEP is reporting more than 11,000 of those customers are out of Hidalgo County.
The outage is mostly around the McAllen/Pharr area. There has been no word yet on what the cause is.
AEP spokesman Eladio Jaimez said the cause of the outage is a transmission outage, and the estimated time of restoration is around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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