Forrest Avenue, within the South Highland neighborhood, is darkish aside from streetlights within the early hours of Saturday, June 17, 2023, following a storm, in Shreveport, La.

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Forrest Avenue, within the South Highland neighborhood, is darkish aside from streetlights within the early hours of Saturday, June 17, 2023, following a storm, in Shreveport, La.

Henrietta Wildsmith/AP

AUSTIN, Texas — More than 300,000 clients within the southern U.S. remained with out energy Monday following damaging weekend storms, leaving residents trying to find reduction as sweltering temperatures continued to scorch the region.

At least one individual in Oklahoma died as a result of extended outages, officers stated.

The bulk of outages had been in Oklahoma, the place heavy storms Saturday evening carried winds as robust as 80 mph round Tulsa, in response to the National Weather Service. About 165,000 clients across the metropolis nonetheless had no energy Monday as crews scrambled to restore greater than 700 damaged poles and downed wires, stated Amy Brown, a spokeswoman for Public Service Company of Oklahoma.

One one that used a respirator died due to the ability outage, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum stated at a metropolis information convention.

Power suppliers warned that some outages is probably not mounted till the top of the week, and Bynum urged residents to bear in mind household and neighbors who’re reliant on digital medical tools.

“Please check on them,” he stated.

In all, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana had greater than 300,000 clients with out electrical energy as of Monday afternoon, in response to PowerOutage.us.

In Louisiana, officers closed almost two dozen state places of work Monday due to the dangers of extreme climate. On prime of the outages, a warmth wave continued bringing harmful triple-digit temperatures to Texas, and a few elements of the state had been beneath extreme warmth warnings that had been set to proceed by means of at the very least Wednesday.

“It’s been unbearable,” Leigh Johnson, a resident of Mount Vernon, Texas, told Dallas television station KXAS. She had not had energy for about three days.

“It’s been horrible because it’s like, the heat index has been so bad that literally, we’re having to sit in the cold baths to cool ourselves down. Our animals as well, we’re having to stick them in the bathtub just to keep them from having a heat stroke, it’s been that bad,” she stated.

About 4,000 clients had been additionally nonetheless ready for electrical energy to return again within the Texas city of Perryton after a devastating twister ripped by means of final week.

Power outages additionally prolonged to Mississippi, the place some individuals had bother acquiring remedy after energy compelled pharmacies and grocery shops to shut, in response to WLBT-TV. As crews had been working to revive energy in Mississippi, a number of tornadoes swept by means of the state in a single day into Monday, killing one and injuring almost two dozen.