Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard
James Dobbins and Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times
Feb. 16, 2021
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Jorge and Fidel Benitez grill meat outside their home in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, as they have been without power since Sunday evening. Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)Ilana Panich-linsman/NYT
SAN ANTONIO When the lights went out Monday night in the Alazán-Apache housing project in San Antonio which stands in one of the city’s poorest ZIP codes the traffic signals in the neighborhood flickered off and storekeepers pulled down their shutters.
Councilman Treviño slept at his field office overnight ahead of planned homeless removal
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District 1 Councilman Roberto Treviño spent the night in his field office ahead of a planned abatement of a homeless encampment on the premises Friday morning.Kin Man Hui, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
District 1 Councilman Roberto Treviño spent the night in his field office ahead of a planned abatement of a homeless encampment on the premises Friday morning.
Around 6:30 a.m. Friday, Dellview area residents and activists showed up at the office at 1310 Vance Jackson Road, expecting city crews to remove an encampment of unsheltered people. Earlier this week, the city cleared a homeless tent camp beneath Interstate 37 downtown displacing more than 80 people. The decision stirred controversy within the city which was evident Friday, but removal crews never showed up to the District 1 office.
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East Side auto shop owner proud of service to his San Antonio community and rodeo
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Johnny Guerra, owner of A & A Body Frame & Paint Shop on the East Side, admires his 1930 Ford, which is in good running condition. For more than 30 years Guerra, 85, has served on the Freeman Coliseum Community Advisory Board and is a nine-year member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of JerusalemBilly Calzada /an Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Johnny Guerra, owner of A & A Body Frame & Paint Shop, points out the hood ornament on his 1930 Ford, which is in good running order. For more than 30 years Guerra, 85, has served on the Freeman Coliseum Community Advisory Board and is a nine-year member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors.Billy Calzada /an Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
Filled up tanks as they head out on interstate 37, 35, interstate 45 out of corpus christie and houston. this is so impactful, we could see some areas, computer models saying, about 40 inches of rain. unbelievable. the next 1995 days the next five days. thank you. she mentioned gas there, not being able to get gas. gas for everyone else is probably going to go higher. around the country hurricane harvey heading straight to the heart of oil refineries. that means higher prices at the pump. nearly half of america s petroleum refineries are on the coast. one-third sit directly in harvey s path. oil platforms and rigs are shutting down. 39 facilities have been evacuated. what does this mean for drivers? experts tell us gas prices will spike 5 to 15 cents over the next week. especially in the south, southeast, and the mid-atlantic u.s. the good news here, gas prices are still near historic lows.