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Climate lessons from Texas frozen power outages
An off-course polar vortex meandered toward the Mexican border, bringing with it frigid Arctic air rarely seen as far south as Texas. Frozen equipment rendered power generation systems in the state inoperable, forcing grid operators to begin rolling blackouts to customers then left to fend for themselves in the glacial weather.
The year was 2021. And 2011. And 1989.
These same scenes have played out before across the Lone Star State, and experts previously had warned that they would happen again if Texas power generators, grid operators, and lawmakers failed to make the necessary investments to address the problem. Fail they did, and Texans suffered the consequences in mid-February 2021, with more than 50 deaths, over 4 million homes and businesses losing power, 7 million forced to boil tap water before drinking it, and a price tag already in the billions of dollars. Minority and low-income communities, as so often is the case wh
Texas disaster: Polar vortex plunges Lone Star state into wintry nightmare without power, water and answers Larry McShane
It was the winter weather nightmare nobody in Texas saw coming, a Lone Star catastrophe of unprecedented power outages and failed water systems and a still-rising death toll of at least two dozen.
At the nadir of the deep freeze that began last Sunday, 4 million Texans lost electricity as the statewide power grid teetered and nearly collapsed dodging by seconds a nightmare scenario of widespread blackouts lasting for months. The state’s water supply became compromised, with 7 million Texans still instructed Saturday to boil tap water before use.
At the nadir of the deep freeze that began last Sunday, 4 million Texans lost electricity as the statewide power grid teetered and nearly collapsed dodging by seconds a nightmare scenario of widespread blackouts lasting for months.
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