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Texans queue for water as US counts cost of deadly winter storm

The extreme weather was blamed for the deaths of at least 57 people. Yet another snowstorm will affect portions of the Midwest, Great Lakes and interior Northeast on Sunday and Monday. The winter storm that brought more misery to the South on Thursday continued to dump snow and ice across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Friday, just as millions of Texans grappled with the aftermath of the deadly winter blast.  But there is some good news for the beleaguered south-central U.S., including Texas: Much warmer weather is forecast for next week across the region, as temperatures slowly rebound ...

LM Otero/AP / AP ERCOT To End Emergency Conditions, Oncor Works To Restore Power The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said it expects to come out of emergency conditions later this morning. “There is enough generation on the electric system to allow us to begin to return to more normal operating conditions,” said Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin in a statement. No additional outages were needed overnight to keep power supply and electric demand in balance. Oncor expects to have power restored to a substantial number of customers by this evening. About 27,000 o...

Since the deadly winter storm ravaging the state forced pipes to burst and treatment plants to back up, destroying utilities and contaminating supplies, millions of Texans face water shortages. The shortage just added another number to the list of things Texans had to worry about.

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