CFE Deploys 2,705 Electricians Ahead of Hurricane Trudy as Cold Front Leaves Tamaulipas in the Dark

The Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) deployed 2,705 electricians to strategic points across the country ahead of the possible impact of Hurricane Trudy on October 15, 2026, according to its official bulletin. The following day, cold front number two left several neighborhoods in Tampico and Ciudad Madero, in southern Tamaulipas, without service due to gusts of up to 60 kilometers per hour, Milenio reported. These are two distinct phenomena placing simultaneous strain on restoration operations.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center reported in the early hours of Saturday, October 17, that Trudy was located as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with winds of 80 knots (about 148 kilometers per hour), roughly 160 kilometers west-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima. The agency expects the center to pass very close to Mexico's central-west coast through Sunday, between Michoacán and Jalisco, and then to turn west-northwest and move away from the coast. Hurricane and tropical storm warnings remain in effect for stretches of the Mexican coast. In Tamaulipas, meanwhile, the arrival of cold front number two closed the port of Tampico to smaller and larger vessels.

The team mobilized by the CFE includes 477 cranes, 852 light vehicles, 189 emergency generators, 100 lighting towers and two helicopters, according to the bulletin also reported by 889 Noticias. The company maintains standby personnel at generating plants and large dam reservoirs. In May, the CFE had forecast 15 named storms for the 2026 Pacific season, of which three could reach minor hurricane status and two major hurricane status, according to its bulletin from the National Hurricane Meeting.

The outages in southern Tamaulipas originated when a tree fell onto the wiring in the Luis Echeverría neighborhood and brought down two transformers. Crews worked on the smaller cases, and Civil Protection and firefighters removed trunks and branches. The two events show a simultaneous operational load on human and equipment resources spread across distant regions of the country.

The next checkpoint is the new National Hurricane Center bulletin for the afternoon of Saturday, October 17, along with CFE reports on restoration in southern Tamaulipas.

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