4 1 million without power in Texas as dangerous winter weather continues midutahradio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from midutahradio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
City Public Works director Carol Haddock explained that state rules from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality mean that the boil notice can’t be immediately lifted even once the system regains enough pressure to ensure the water coming to consumers can be sufficiently treated and sanitized. She said once the water pressure gets back to an acceptable level, the city has to take water samples and send them into the state.
“We have to then let them sit in the laboratory for 24 hours to make sure that no bacteria grows in them,” Haddock explained, “and once we get the all clear on those, then the state will allow us to rescind the boil water notice.”
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Anger over Texas’ power grid failing in the face of a record winter freeze mounted on Tuesday as millions of residents remained shivering with no assurances that their electricity and heat out for 36 hours or longer in many homes would return soon or stay on once it finally does.
“I know people are angry and frustrated,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who woke up to more than 1 million people still without power in his city. “So am I.”
In all, between 2 and 3 million households in Texas still had no power nearly two full days after snowfall