We just completed a super-dark drive from Mockingbird Station (Mockingbird and Central) to the Lakewood Shopping Center and Lakewood Theater. Beginning at Campisi’s on Mockingbird (Mockingbird and Matilda), there was virtually no power anywhere from Matilda south along Mockingbird to nearly Skillman, and then from Mockingbird/Skillman south to the fire station on Richmond. That is a huge area to be dark all at once. (Note: this is a file photo since it was too dark to get any decent shots.)
Lights were mostly on for the blocks between Skillman and Abrams south of Tietze Park, but the area around Wells Fargo Bank Building — and the building itself — was dark at about 8:30 p.m. I counted about 15,000 homes without power as of 9:30 p.m. Thursday on Oncor’s self-service report-an-outage map, which maps outages and allows you to report your own.
Although we weren’t out and about until long after the rain quit falling, even in the dark we could see lots of downed branches and trees during the drive, so if you’re affected it’s probably a good idea to start calling the tree removal guys (here are some who advertise with us) as soon as you can — they’re going to be busy.
The Morning News has some storm-damage photos from throughout the D/FW area, including one of a tree dropped onto a car at Wilshire Baptist Church, Abrams and Mockingbird.
Send us your storm-damage pictures to editor@advocatemag.com, and we’ll post them here so we can all find out what’s going on. And please update neighbors here in the comments section by letting us know where you are, what the power situation is and anything else that would useful information to the rest of us.
