Southeast Texas residents were dealing with power outages after storms, with the hardest hit area in the lakes region and 11,424 Jasper Newton Electric Co-Op customers without electricity at 9:35 p.m.

The count was current at 9:30 p.m. for a county-by-county listing, and the numbers on the cps outage map and other utility pages were only estimates for restoration time. That left customers across a wide stretch of the region watching for updates as crews and utility systems tracked outages that had spread beyond one neighborhood or one town.

Entergy Texas serves much of Southeast Texas, including customers in Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange and Tyler counties. The Jasper Newton Electric Co-Op serves customers in Jasper and Newton counties, while the Deep East Texas Electric Co-Op covers customers in Jasper, Newton, San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Sabine and Rusk counties. The Sam Houston Electric Cooperative serves some customers in parts of Liberty, Hardin, Tyler and Jasper counties.

The picture on the ground was not a single utility failure but a storm-driven outage pattern spread across several service areas. The fact that restoration times were listed only as estimates mattered because it meant many customers had no firm answer about when lights would come back on, even as the numbers were being updated late in the evening.

For people in the lakes area and beyond, the immediate question was not whether the outage had been mapped. It was how long a storm-ravaged grid could keep pace with demand for information, repairs and power returning in the dark.