I lost power at 3AM and power was back on at 4:20PM, in Katy, TX, far west Houston. There are huge crews working to bring infrastructure back up. Hopefully, La Porte is not far behind. I wish you the best...
I was watching the coverage on the networks last night, and every time they saw a "blueish flash" they thought mean a transformer had blown.
More likely, it was a power line in contact with a tree, or an adjacent power line.
You can fix that in a by replacing a fuse. A transformer takes a while to replace.
The latest email from my friend in Lake Charles:
“Orange County Texas - The people are now being rescued off of their roofs and attics. They took a terrible blow in Orange (about 30 minutes from us) I have not seen these rescues on the news. They tell us on our local news rescue help did finally arrive.
They finally let us off curfew today but only until 8:00pm this evening when we are back under curfew (very serious fine after 8:00pm if you go out). Now if we do not go where we say we are going (something important) then they will come an arrest us ... daytime.
This is how it is done. I am stopped (check point) I say I am going to my home, to work or to church (the policeman files this info in the computer at that checkpoint). Now if I go to another part of town instead for any other reason (that is not important) then when I am stopped again (another check point) they will run my name through the computer to check me out to see if I am in the right place. They run our names in a computer, if we are not where we are suppose to be they will fine us $6000 or we can serve jail time. We are only to go out for a very good reason but we have to do what we need to do and return home. High tide was this evening. I heard water was coming over alot of the levees. I have a strange feeling.”