Storm Takes Down Trees and Power

A strong thunderstorm swept over parts of Fayette County Friday afternoon.

The storm downed trees in La Grange and knocked out power in La Grange and the rural areas south of the city.

A major outage left more than 1,000 Fayette Electric Cooperative (FEC) customers without power starting around 5:30 p.m. That outage originated in the Riverside Substation and lasted nearly two hours. FEC reported additional outages northeast of Flatonia and south of Schulenburg.

Trees and tree limbs were down all across the northern part of La Grange, with at least one tree hitting a home and another crushing a truck.

The start of La Grange’s season-opening football game was delayed an hour because of lighting in the area, though the stadium never lost power.

As the storm moved south, Schulenburg High School’s football game in Hallettsville had to also be delayed due to lightning.

Rainfall was scattered but significant in some places. The Lower Colorado River Authority’s rain gauge at the Colorado River above La Grange recorded 1.12 inches. The LCRA gauge near Rutersville recorded just 0.22

inches.

At the Power Plant it rained 0.31 inches.

The heaviest rainfall appears to have fallen in the Swiss Alp and Ammannsville areas, with some property owners reporting more than an inch and a half of rain.