CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) -
More than 4,100 American Electric Power customers in Flour Bluff were left in the dark Monday after a copper theft in an area substation.
Some of those customers included summer school students at Flour Bluff High School.
"We were just sitting in class, lights off, no power everywhere," student Mercedes Ybarra said.
No electricity meant no lights on the campus, and no street lights. Also dozens of restaurants and businesses were left in the dark for a few hours Monday morning.
AEP reported that crooks had cut some copper wire at the substation near Waldron and Hustlin' Hornets Drive, and during the repair, the entire substation had to be shut off.
Power was returned to all customers, including the high school, after about two hours.
