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“We are resilient people”: Texans share how they weathered the winter storm
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After days without power or running water, many Texans say they re frustrated, but determined to overcome the latest challenge thrown their way. We caught up with several people to hear about what they endured as a historic winter storm with catastrophic consequences swept across the state.
There s Victoria Forton, a new mom trying to keep her baby warm in Pflugerville. And Sara Deraud, a Grapevine woman concerned about her grown son five hours away.
Texas students slammed again as storm scrambles already chaotic school year
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Frozen jackets sit on a bench at an elementary school in San Marcos on Feb. 17, 2021. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
When icy temperatures knocked out Neshia Inmon’s electricity for more than two days, she sent her 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son to a family member’s house while she stayed home.
Inmon, who lives in East Texas, encouraged her children, learning through the Texas Virtual School Network this year, to keep up with their schoolwork when cell service or internet access permitted. Throughout the chaos and instability of the past year, Inmon has done as much as possible to prioritize her children’s education.
Despite some modest gains in the state’s electricity output as generators come back online, elected officials warned Wednesday that both the disastrous power outages and the lack of safe (or any) water many Houston residents are still facing could easily last until this weekend.
“Residents still need to be prepared to go a couple more days without power,” said Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo in a Wednesday update on the still unfolding disaster. That’s because even though ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas) has been able to get enough power generation back up and running to get around 200,000 CenterPoint Energy customers back online, there’s still a chance those new generators might later fall victim to weather-related issues that could bring them offline all over again.
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