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Hurricane Ian flooded cities, turned out the lights on millions, and left migrants from an overturned boat missing on Thursday as Florida assessed damage from one of the most intense US storms in years.
February 17, 2021 SHOW TRANSCRIPT “I have never, in my 27 years that I have grown up in Texas, ever experienced something like this. This is completely new to me. It's a little bit nerve-wracking,” Areli Gonzalez said. No power and no heat. That’s what millions of Texans are facing as a historic winter storm grips the state. And now there are concerns hotels are jacking up prices as people look to escape the cold. “We got the room at the price it was supposed to be booked at. But I did hear about [price gouging]. And it honestly made me completely upset at the fact that there are ...
Thursday, February 18, 2021 Background Over Presidents’ Day weekend 2021, an unprecedented cold weather event hit the Midwest and South central United States. The storm led to major disruptions to infrastructure throughout the region, including icy road conditions, frozen pipes, and an estimated 3 million Texans still without power. [1] This is the result of a confluence of circumstances, including but not limited to frigid temperatures freezing generation and transmission equipment, shortages in natural gas supply and energy demand greatly exceeding supply, and Texas’ prac...
U.S. energy crisis leaves millions without power in big freeze Brian K. Sullivan and Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg Feb. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Pump jacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, U.S, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. The arctic freeze gripping the central U.S. is raising the specter of power outages in Texas and ratcheting up pressure on energy prices already trading at unprecedented levels. Photographer: Matthew Busch/BloombergMatthew Busch/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- The energy crisis crippling power grids across the U.S. showed no sign of abating on Tuesday morning as ...