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The Neffs Fire burned near Millcreek City. It almost forced evacuations in the Olympus Cove area. Most of Salt Lake County, and Utah for that matter, is in extreme or exceptional drought. Even though the state’s official fire season doesn’t start until June, fire authorities in the county are already gearing up for the 2021 wildfire season. Besides dry conditions, canyons around the Salt Lake Valley are a wildfire danger because forests butt up against urban areas, according to Unified Fire Authority Chief Dan Petersen. “There's a risk living in this area,” Petersen told the Salt Lak...

6 Min Read GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Thursday that all power generating plants in the state were back online but hundreds of thousands of homes remain without energy because of downed lines and other issues after a ferocious winter storm and cold snap. While welcoming the progress, other leaders in Texas warned that the state’s energy grid would remain extremely “fragile” for a few days and that the cold weather that created the problems would stick around through the weekend. Some 325,000 households still do not have power, down from 2.7 million on...

Snowstorms Aim for U.S. East While Fierce Cold Grips Texas Bloomberg 2/11/2021 Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) -- A parade of snowstorms is threatening to roll through the Eastern U.S. over the next few days while bitter cold grips the heart of the country, driving temperatures below freezing all the way to Houston. A system will sweep out of the Ohio Valley Friday, bringing freezing rain and ice across the central Appalachian Mountains and likely passing south of Washington. Another one will work its way up the East Coast late Saturday into Sunday, but it isn’t clear whethe...

USA-WEATHER/ (UPDATE 1, PIX):UPDATE 1-Five storms in 10 days loom amid bitter cold in north United States

Snowstorms Aim for U.S. East While Fierce Cold Grips Texas Bloomberg 2/11/2021 Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) -- A parade of snowstorms is threatening to roll through the Eastern U.S. over the next few days while bitter cold grips the heart of the country, driving temperatures below freezing all the way to Houston. A system will sweep out of the Ohio Valley Friday, bringing freezing rain and ice across the central Appalachian Mountains and likely passing south of Washington. Another one will work its way up the East Coast late Saturday into Sunday, but it isn’t clear whethe...