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After a weekend of mostly sunny skies, Texans are thankful to be on the other side of a week of devastating cold that brought the state to its knees. Across greater Houston, residents who are glad to have made it through this latest Lone Star crisis are still surveying the damage and picking up the pieces.
On Sunday afternoon, the city of Houston finally declared its water was safe for human consumption after most of the city had been on a boil notice since Wednesday morning, as directed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner celebrated the news at a city water distribution event Sunday; Over the last several days, the city has given away “almost three million bottles of water” according to Turner.
Some Texans got electric bills up to $17,000 after the storm - how does that happen?
Meryl Kornfield and Paulina Firozi, The Washington Post
Feb. 21, 2021
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Ivet Cantu, 45, points to her electricity bill from Griddy energy on an app showing her energy cost of $3,114.27, during recent severe cold weather outside of her home in Dallas, on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. In Texas’ deregulated electricity market, Griddy and some other power suppliers charge customers wholesale variable rates per kilowatt-hour. (Ben Torres/The Dallas Morning News via AP)Ben Torres/Associated Press
They kept the lights off, limited their use of electronics and scarcely watched television, except to catch up at night on the bone-chilling news of the winter storms brutalizing their area.
Texas utility regulators will temporarily ban power companies from billing customers after the deadly winter storm that caused widespread blackouts, Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday.
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