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Thursday morning’s storm left 175,000 homes and businesses without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Some won’t get their power restored until Saturday, power company officials said. 
Fast-moving storms that blew through the area early Thursday morning also left North Texas residents to cope with water shortages, closed schools and a massive mess.
The northbound and southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 75, as well as their accompanying frontage roads, will be closed from 3 to 3:30 p.m. today just north of Stacy Road on the Allen-Fairview border. Oncor must repair a utility pole damaged by last night’s storms and reattach an aerial electric line to a new pole next to the highway.  The Texas Department of Transportation and local police departments are in charge of the closure.
Eastbound Interstate 30 in Fort Worth at Forest Park Boulevard was expected to be closed until 5 p.m. to remove a sign bridge damaged by the storm.
The city of Carrollton has asked residents to restrict water use to “essential needs” because the storm knocked out power to two pumping stations.
At Lewisville ISD — Hebron Valley, Coyote Ridge and Indian Creek elementaries and Arbor Creek and Creek Valley Middle schools — had no power and school district officials said “parents are strongly encouraged to pick up their children from these campuses at their earliest convenience.”
Classes were canceled today at Allen High School because of power outages. Several other Allen elementary schools are also without power, but district officials said students there will be moved to parts of the building where there is enough light until power can be restored.
Fort Worth schools reported several campuses without power. As of 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the district reported 15 schools were still without power. Power had been restored at 13 other campuses

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