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Austin 360 Central Texas farmers have been devastated by this week's freeze and power outages, and local organizations are already finding new ways to get financial relief to farmers who need it. One way that people can help farmers whose winter crops have been decimated in the past week is to shop at local farmers markets, which will be open this weekend. Many are waiving booth fees for farmers, who will be bringing produce they harvested before the freeze and any other shelf-stable products they sell, such as pickles.  "Some vendors will not have anything to sell at the market for weeks as...

Editor's note: The Statesman is making this story about Austin winter weather free for everyone to read as a public service. If you don't already, please subscribe today at statesman.com/subscribenow. Hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in in Austin remain without power due to outages amid a winter storm. Austin Energy — which serves a 437-square-mile area, including Austin and portions of Travis, Williamson and Hays counties — was required to dramatically reduce the share of its energy usage to ease the strain on a statewide power grid, according to General Manager ...

Gusty north-northwest winds of 10 to 15 mph will add more bite by making air temperatures feel more like several degrees below zero

Austin American-Statesman Central Texans woke up Monday to about a half-foot of snow, subzero wind chills and impassible roads, but it was a wave of rolling blackouts and other weather-related interruptions that made the worst winter storm in decades particularly disruptive if not dangerous. With the state's power grid stretched dangerously thin, Texas energy officials mandated rolling blackouts to begin at around 1:30 a.m. statewide and pleaded for those with power to immediately shut off what they can to conserve power. Austin Energy complied, saying it hoped blackouts would last no more th...

Winter storm spreads snow, ice, misery across Texas Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman Central Texans woke up Monday to about a half-foot of snow, subzero wind chills and impassable roads, but it was a wave of rolling blackouts and other weather-related interruptions that made the worst winter storm in decades particularly disruptive as well as dangerous. With various types of power generation going offline statewide, amid record demand, Texas energy officials mandated rolling blackouts to begin about 1:30 a.m. and pleaded for those with power to immediately shut off wh...