Restoration efforts have brought back power to thousands of Rio Grande Valley homes following Sunday showers.

AEP Texas and Magic Valley Electric Cooperative are reporting outages affecting a total of 1,786 customers.

The majority of these outages are in Hidalgo County, with over 1,246 affected customers.

At around 9 a.m. Sunday, over 18,000 outages were reported across the Rio Grande Valley. That number dropped to 10,000 at around 10 a.m., then increased to 12,918 at around 11:45 a.m., then dropped to 5,055 customers at 12:45 p.m.

As of 5 p.m. Sunday, the number of outages now stands at 1,786.

The area will see scattered showers throughout the day.

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