SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Ralph Garza is monitoring his neighbor\u2019s homes in San Antonio\u2019s West Side. There\u2019s more traffic than usual on this block as workers, including volunteers, continue to try to restore power and clean up.<\/p>\n
Over 100,000 customers were left without power when a storm hit the city Friday night. Spectrum News 1 asked Garza Monday morning if he was expecting his power to be back on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope so, I hope so because today will fourth day [without power],\u201d Garza said.<\/p>\n
Thankfully for Garza, the power turned back on later Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The storm left power lines resting on cars and debris all over people\u2019s lawns, and the winds snapped trees and utility poles. One of the poles fell on Garza\u2019s daughter\u2019s car while she was in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean a miracle from God that nothing happened to her,\u201d Garza said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The damage was clear across San Antonio\u2019s West Side: fences destroyed, giant trees resting in the middle of streets and even on top of houses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the severity of the damage that slowed down progress in restoring power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust getting there in the first place and just starting the work is impeded,\u201d Frank Almaraz, interim CPS Energy CEO and president, said. \u201cThey have to clear that debris and those trees even just to begin the restoration effort.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The impact was seen for miles. The metal roof from a nearby business covered Garza\u2019s backyard, roof and his neighbor\u2019s front yard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Monday morning, over 2,000 CPS Energy customers were still without power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juan Flores, 93, who is using solar-powered lights to see at night in his home of 66 years, was one of those people still without power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, we have a little ice chest, and I bought some ice, and then I put all of the drinks in there,\u201d Flores said. \u201cAnd the milk, and that\u2019s the way we keep up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flores said he doesn\u2019t have much food to refrigerate for one reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I retired, Bill Miller is the place I eat,\u201d Flores said, smiling at his wife. \u201cBill Miller, she eats breakfast with me every day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for Garza, his Dodge Ram was his temporary home until the power returned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got hit real hard; what you see out here, this is us coming together,\u201d Garza said. \u201cHelping one another, that is how it is supposed to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
So far, electric companies from the Rio Grande Valley all the way to Central Texas have come to San Antonio to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Ralph Garza is monitoring his neighbor\u2019s homes in San Antonio\u2019s West Side. There\u2019s more traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2160,1570,6294,223,82,84,83,57088,27,1569,2053,835],"class_list":["post-422969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-app-top-stories","tag-ctv","tag-jose-arredondo","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-severe-weather-2026","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}