We are lucky. We got power back in eight hours.

Still without electricity and a swelter setting in, neighbors on Adelaide Drive were getting hot.
"I don't see why it is taking so long," said Tami Womack, standing near the southern Dallas street, where it's been lights out since Wednesday evening. "I can't afford to be throwing food away."
She and others for several blocks around were among the nearly 60,000 North Texas utility customers still without electricity Friday night, almost two days after damaging storms zapped the power system.
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