Texas News Despite Presidential Promises, a Texas Town Looks at Life After Coal KWBU | By Texas Standard Published November 17, 2017 at 11:54 AM CST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:40 Gabriel Cristóver Pérez/KUT Rockdale, a city of 5,600 about an hour away from Austin, could be devastated by the closure of the Sandow Power Plant and a coal mine that feeds it. Central Texas communities are expected to lose some 450 jobs.