“Things will likely get worse before they get better,” said Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in the county of nearly 5 million people around Houston.
Texas is the bull’s-eye for an unusually severe winter storm: ‘We’re living through a really historic event’
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
A woman walks through falling snow in San Antonio, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting canceled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as far south as Texas’ Gulf Coast, where snow and sleet were expected overnight. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP
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AUSTIN, Texas A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power for more than 2 million people, shut down grocery stores and air travel and sent cars skidding on dangerously snowy and slick roads.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A sprawling blast of winter weather across the U.S. is likely to blame for the deaths of two people in Texas, where an unusually snowy emergency Monday knocked out power for more than four million people, shut down grocery stores and air travel and closed schools ahead of frigid days still to come. As nightfall threatened to plummet temperatures again into single digits, officials warned that homes still without power would.
4 Dead, 4M Without Power As Bitter Cold, Snow Blasts Texas - Austin, TX - President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency in Texas after unusual winter weather has crippled the Lone Star State.
A frigid blast of winter weather across the US on Monday plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency that knocked out power for more than 2 million people, shut down grocery stores and air travel and sent vehicles skidding on dangerously snowy and slick roads.
The worsening conditions halted the delivery of new COVID-19 vaccine shipments. Massive power outages across Houston included a facility storing 8,000 doses of Moderna vaccine, and health officials scrambled to find takers at the same time as authorities were pleading for people to stay at home.
Temperatures nosedived into the single-digits as far south as San