City continues to grapple with flood recovery
Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Elizabeth Pagano
Yesterday, City Manager Marc Ott sent a memo detailing the toll recent weather has taken on Austin. The memo, which is embedded below, includes some statistics about departmental impacts, including: Austin Energy dealt with 30,000 power outages, 37 pole replacements and 147 downed wires; Emergency Medical Services responded to 29 water-related rescues and evacuations; Austin Fire Department responded to 187 flood-related incidents; Austin Resource Recovery responded to about 200 calls for storm debris removal; the Austin Code Department responded to more than 120 requests for storm-damage inspections; and the Public Works Department received 436 customer-service requests and removed more than 90 trees and limbs.
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