Governor convenes emergency meeting to address spike in Texas energy bills
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Governor Convenes Emergency Meeting To Address Spike In Texas Energy Bills
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Texas Airlifts Water With Ice Covering Roads: Energy Update
Bloomberg 2/20/2021 Joe Carroll, David Wethe and Josh Saul © Bloomberg A snow covered road near the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.
(Bloomberg) The Texas power grid has returned to normal operations as a historic cold blast eases, but the impact of the deep freeze is still leaving towns without water, homes yet to be reconnected to electricity supplies and highways chocked with ice and snow.
Texas emergency officials are airlifting pallets of bottled water to cities and towns where water supplies were knocked out or disrupted by this week’s widespread power failures. About 1,000 of the state’s 7,000 local water utilities were offline or unable to ensure supplies were fit for human consumption as of Friday afternoon. More than 140,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark.
Wednesday on the evening edition of
The Chad Hasty Show, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick joined the broadcast to offer memories of his friend Rush Limbaugh, after the news earlier in the day that Limbaugh had passed away at the age of 70 from complications of cancer.
Patrick, owner of Houston radio station KSEV, and himself a former talk show host, shared a few of his personal experiences with Rush, some dating back to when Limbaugh was first appearing on the national radio scene.
Patrick said, while speaking about his station s early months of airing The Rush Limbaugh Show,
We were one of the first major markets to put him on, and we went from the 40th rank, and you know how hard this is Chad, we went from a 40th ranked station, from 11:00 to 1:00, to number one in about ninety days. And I didn t have any money to promote the show, it just caught on. I ve never seen anything like it in my life.Rush and I became personal friends.We spent a lot of time together. Every