Thousands Lose Power In Outage

HOUSTON - A widespread outage in parts of Galveston and Brazoria County left thousands without power Tuesday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Texas New Mexico Power Company

said about 35,000 customers in Friendswood, Alvin, Manville and League City lost power early Tuesday afternoon.

The electricity was out for about 40 minutes. Power was restored at about 1 p.m.

The cause of the outage is under investigation.

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