The elected officials representing Hunt County in Austin and Washington D.C. are scheduled to make visits to the county starting this coming week, as part of tours arose North and
North Texas counties, cities, others open warming shelters for residents without power
Some of the warming shelters will be open 24 hours a day.
The Kay Bailey Hutchison convention center is Dallas was opened up Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 to give people without shelter a warm place to stay during the bitter sub-freezing temperatures predicted for the coming days. The City arranged for OurCalling to handle the preparation of the center, the intake and the around-the-clock operational management of the project, with funding for the opening of the Convention Center coming from the City of Dallas, and help provide by many other partner agencies.(Ali Hendricksen)
KETR
updated, 9:50 p.m.
Thousands of people in Northeast Texas remain without electrical service as of Monday afternoon, as a night of record low temperatures approaches, with readings forecast to fall below zero across most of the region.
The outage-tracking website poweroutage.us reports amost one in three Oncor customers being without power as of late afternoon Monday. There are two major issues affecting many customers right now: winter storm outages & controlled power outages directed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Oncor said in a late-afternoon release Monday.
Most of Texas is served by the state’s own electrical grid, which is managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Oncor is one of many private electricity providers that deliver power through ERCOT’s systems. Other power providers in Northeast Texas include Greenville Electric Utility System, Farmers Electric Cooperative, Texas-New Mexico Power Company, and others.
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