The freeze has been blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths on slick roads this week in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. And even as Texas finally began thawing Thursday, a new Artic front from Canada was headed toward the northern U.S. and threatening New England with potentially the coldest weather in decades. Wind chills could dive below minus 50 .
Across Texas more than 280,000 customers were without power Thursday night, down from 430,000 earlier in the day, according to PowerOutage.us. The failures were most widespread in Austin, where impatience was rising among 150,000 customers nearly two days after the electricity first went out, which for many also means no heat. Power failures have affected about 30% of customers in the city of nearly a million at any given time since Wednesday.
“I get that there’s a fine line between preparedness and panic, but I wish they’d been more aggressive in their communications,” Rizzolo said. Among those still without power Thursday was the Central Texas Food Bank, according to Travis County Judge Andy Brown, the county's top elected official. In a briefing Thursday with the federal Weather Prediction Center, New Englanders were warned that wind chills — the combined effect of wind and cold air on exposed skin — in the minus 50s “could be the coldest felt in decades.”
Tough bounce
Own power? Your problem. Don't want to be on the national grid? Enjoy. It looks good on ALL of you. Now go ask for federal help...shouldn't help you at all. Love seeing this. :)
Maybe they can hug some immigrants
Go electric 🤔
didnt learn the first time its their fault
Again didn’t this happen In 2019 ?
Frustrated? Frozen.
Omg 😱 winter 🥶 in Texans!!!
Wow 😮 what’s going on with weather lately( winter) !!!😱❄️🥶
They need a new Governor.
It's that darned global warming again.
karma
This is what happens when your governor is more interested in banning books in schools & controlling women's bodies, than in repairing an infrastructure problem that they knew was coming for decades. 8 years Abbott has been governor, and hasn't done one single thing about it.
Seems to be an annual event now.
Again?
is cruz in cancun again
Never coulda seen that coming
I guess that guns aren't a heat source?
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