Updated
Feb 15, 2021
Millions Of Texans Without Power As Snow Storm Slams U.S.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for all of the state’s 254 counties.
Paul J. Weber and Jake Bleiberg
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to more than 2 million people, closed dangerously snowy and slick highways and put the delivery of new COVID-19 vaccine shipments on hold.
Temperatures nosedived into the single-digits as far south as San Antonio, and homes that had already been without electricity for hours had no certainty about when the lights and heat would come back on, as the state’s overwhelmed power grid throttled into rotating blackouts that are typically only seen in 100-degree Fahrenheit summers.
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