Rolling blackouts are in place as at least 3,800 people Bandera Electric Cooperative (BEC) customers were without power 9 a.m. Friday morning amid freezing temperatures. Friday morning around 8:30, BEC announced they were experiencing record-high usage. "We are working hard to minimize rolling outages while maintaining the integrity of our grid," read a Facebook post. "Rolling outages in limited portions of our service territory are necessary to prevent long-term outages system-wide." BEC announced on social media they were working on repairing reported outages beginning Thursday night and into Friday morning. Around 2:30 a.m. Friday morning, they said they were instituting rolling ...