The transition to cold weather may leave people without power until energy companies can figure out the problem and resolve it.

Companies like Oncor respond to the outages. The fire department will also check out the problem in situations that are possible emergencies.

“You just never know what’s going to happen until the weather gets on through here, but ice is a big problem,” said Donald Hughes, Deputy Chief of Operations WFFD, on the additional issues that they may deal with.

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