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The last time the nation shivered though such a cold February was 1989. In Texas, dozens of people died due to the extreme cold, snow and ice that plagued the state during the middle of the month. February's winter weather is potentially the most costly weather disaster for the state of Texas in history. If you thought it was unusually cold last month, you were right: Thanks to an invasion of the polar vortex, February 2021 was the USA's coldest February in over 30 years, according to a report released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The last time the nation shi...

Opinion: Who should Texas blame for the blackout? FacebookTwitterEmail State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, left, questions Bill Magness, President and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) about the power outage last week's deadly winter freeze during the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce in the Senate Gallery at the Capitol on Thursday Feb. 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Listening is State Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)Jay Janner, MBR / Associated Press Public hearing Regarding “Answers on outages,” (A10, Feb. 2...

USA TODAY Days after parts of the south-central U.S. suffered freezing temperatures and ice that knocked out power to millions and resulted in dozens of deaths, many of the same areas are at risk of flash flooding from heavy rainfall expected over the weekend. Excessive rainfall is expected along an approximately 1,000-mile-long zone from Texas to Maryland over the next three days, according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowsk. Soil potentially still wet from the melting snow and ice from last week's winter storm could accelerate water runoff, Sosnowski said. Some areas could...

Ruling: Partly False Here's why: The state of Texas is still reeling from a historic mid-February snowstorm that overtaxed its power grid. More than 4 million people waited several days in frigid temperatures for power to be restored, USA TODAY reported. Heidi Cruz, a high-ranking executive at investment banking company Goldman Sachs and wife of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, shares part of the blame for the outages, claims a Feb. 21 Facebook post. "DO YOU KNOW Heidi Cruz, Ted's wife, is managing director of Goldman Sachs. They over see the Texas utilities," the post states. USA TODAY reached ou...

Anger toward Abbott grows in deadly storm's wake Annie Gowen, Tim Craig and Arelis R. Hernández, The Washington Post Feb. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about the winter storm during a press conference at the State Operations Center, Thursday Feb. 18, 2021, in Austin, Texas. ( Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)Jay Janner/Associated Press It was clear by Tuesday afternoon that Texas was in a full-blown crisis - and Gov. Greg Abbott had largely been out of sight. More than 4 million households did not have power amid dangerously low temperatures, and an ...