![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know how much longer I can survive – without heat since 2am. “We are literally shivering watching y’all in your warm homes,” one person wrote. In Austin, where the city’s website and phone lines were down because of power outages and technical issues, local officials asked people to conserve energy and stay off the roads if they could, unless they needed to get to a warming center, during an online press conference Monday afternoon.īut their Facebook Live was bombarded by comments from angry Austinites demanding answers about when their power would be restored and criticizing the haphazard response. Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency for Texas’ 254 counties, and the US president authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief.īut without time-tested, extensive infrastructure to handle extreme winter weather, Texans still found themselves stranded at home, many with no heat and dwindling cellphone power in case of emergency. “Texans’ electricity consumption needs have far surpassed current power generation.”īitterly frigid conditions and inches of snowfall are both rare in most of Texas, a state known more for hurricanes than nor’easter storms. ![]() “The Texas electric system is facing an unprecedented power shortage situation due to the extreme winter weather impacting the entire state, including Houston & the region,” the company tweeted. In Dallas, police responded to 234 car accidents on Sunday, and another 21 by mid-morning Monday – more than half of which were “major accidents”.Īnd in Houston – Texas’s most populous city – locally-based utilities company CenterPoint Energy posted online that customers who were dealing with outages “ should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day”. Blackouts that started long before dawn lasted for hours with seemingly no end in sight.Īround Austin and San Antonio, “travel remains very difficult to near impossible across many areas”, the National Weather Service warned, and “snow and ice covered roads will persist through at least Tuesday.” Texans reported almost four million power outages by early afternoon, according to. The state was wrestling with long-lasting blackouts and perilous travel conditions on Monday as parts of Texas experienced their coldest temperatures in more than three decades and were doused in inches of snow. State got a waiver for generators to increase production but many can't because they're frozen. They'll also help to set up warming shelters. Greg Abbott says he has deployed National Guard to conduct welfare checks. ![]()
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