Most, if not all Austin Energy customers should have their lights back by Thursday morning. Spokesman Ed Clark said there are still about 350 homes without power as of 5 a.m.
Austin Energy says they've restored power to more than 35,000 customers at 413 locations since Saturday.
Crews were busy Wednesday restoring power to customers left in the dark. The majority of outages involved tree limbs pressing against power lines.
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A return to power
News 8 Austin's Catie Beck reports from Northwest Austin.
 
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The limbs are keeping Austin Energy crews working around the clock. They've been handling close to 20 cases a day. At one point, it took crews more than 13 hours to trim trees. At times they were sawing by hand.
There were 30 repair crews assisted by 26 contract tree trimming crews working around the clock. There were also six additional crews to assist just in tree-trimming, not power restoration.
"I have been on since Saturday and haven't been home yet, there's just a lot of ice on the tree limbs, limbs weighing down,” Austin Energy worker Chad Danz said.
