Houston Area Fared Worse Than The Rest Of Texas During The Winter Storm, Report Says
Sixty-six people also died in Harris County alone, accounting for nearly one-third of the almost 200 deaths attributed to the storm, according to the report.
April 8, 2021, 5:19 PM
Lia Ubidia, left, and her son, Andrew Velarde, carry groceries as they walk home through the snow Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston. A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to more than 2 million people and shut down grocery stores and dangerously snowy roads.
Harris County residents lost power and running water at a rate much higher than the rest of Texas during February’s winter storm, according to a new survey from the University of Houston s Hobby School of Public Affairs.
Photos: Millions Without Power in Texas as Snow Storm Slams U.S.
15 Feb 2021
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to more than 2 million people and shut down grocery stores and dangerously snowy roads.
The worsening conditions halted the delivery of COVID-19 vaccine shipments and left some Texas providers scrambling to find takers for doses expiring within hours.
Temperatures nosedived into the single-digits as far south as San Antonio, and homes that had already been without electricity for hours had no certainty about when the lights and heat would come back on, as the state’s overwhelmed power grid throttled into rotating blackouts that are typically only seen in 100-degree Fahrenheit (38-degree Celsius) summers.