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Why We Don't Like You: Texas A&M Aggies
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The Informed Drinker: In the Beginning, There Was Rum
As summer storm season approaches, Austin Energy has rolled out a nifty online tool that lets you track local power outages.
The Storm Center displays a map of Austin Energy's entire service area, with outages coded to illustrate a small outage (1-200 customers), medium outage (210-500 customers), and large outage (more than 500 customers).
Other features include the time the outage began, the estimated restoration time, and total number of customers without power, all zoomable down to street level.
Of course, if your power is out, you'll be accessing the site via your laptop, running on batteries. Plans are under way to make the site available through smartphones like Blackberrys and iPhones.
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