At Navasota Valley Electric Cooperative, one of our goals is to help you be weather aware so that you can be prepared for a possible power outage. With your safety in mind, we want to share this update about dangerous weather that could affect our area.

The National Weather Service has issued strong to severe storms.

In our area, forecasters are predicting scattered strong to severe storms with heavy rain and high winds.

The worst of the weather is predicted to hit our area in the next few hours and into tonight.

The storms may cause isolated power outages.

We encourage everyone to enable alerts and warnings on your mobile phone and monitor local news broadcasts.

When an outage occurs, power is first restored to substations and major lines, as well as to critical infrastructure in our area, such as hospitals, police departments, and other emergency responders.

Please be aware that sometimes during complicated repairs, you may have your lights come back on, only to have them go off again because we discover another problem that must be fixed.

For your safety, please stay away from any downed power lines.

Although we post service updates to social media, we do not monitor social media for reports of outages. All outages must be reported by text or phone.

To report an outage or a downed power line, you can call 1-800-443-9462.

We will post any updates to our website at www.navasotavalley.com.