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Power outage closes Houston courthouses, but judge marries one young couple on the sidewalk

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An electrical outage on Monday closed municipal courts in Houston, west of downtown.

However, one couple who’d come to the courthouse to get married got lucky, reports KHOU: A judge performed the ceremony on the sidewalk.

The courts are expected to reopen at 1 p.m.

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