Power coming back in Texas, but now water safety is big concern
Power is coming back but the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, with many people lacking safe drinking water.
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Power is coming back but the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, with many people lacking safe drinking water.
Texas authorities ordered 7 million people — a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state — to boil tap water before drinking it because low water pressure could have allowed bacteria to seep into the system.
Reports of water pipes burst by ice are widespread, and the upcoming thaw may further open the floodgates of damage.
Gov. Greg Abbott warned that residents "are not out of the woods" with temperatures still well below freezing.
Drinking water, vaccine supplies disrupted as deadly winter storms stretch across US 152 shares 19/02/2021 - 01:06 A resident in Waco, Texas clears snow as the oil-rich state struggles to cope with a historic cold snap © Matthew Busch, AFP 8 min A deadly winter weather system that brought record-busting cold to the southern and central United States, knocking out power for millions in oil-rich Texas, blanketed the East Coast in snow Thursday, disrupting coronavirus vaccinations. Advert...