North Texans try to cope as outages last for hours due to winter weather
North Texans try to cope as outages last for hours due to winter weather
Sunlight is the only thing illuminating an Oak Lawn condo after the power went out overnight and hasn t been back on since. Folks all across North Texas have been sharing similar stories.
DALLAS - ERCOT has warned Texans to be prepared to be without power for an extended period of time.
The controlled outages were supposed to be between 15 and 45 minutes, but many North Texans have complained about being without power for much longer than that.
Gravesites, Churches and Cantaloupe: Pinesville’s History Vital to Florida’s Fabric
By Alexis Pollak
February 11, 2021
Pinesville is the kind of place, as Gerie Crawford and Michelle Rutledge tell it, in small-town USA where gravesites are among its primary historical landmarks.
It’s an unincorporated area comprised of about 230 homes near Archer Road and U.S. Route 41 and roughly between Archer and Jonesville in western Alachua County.
“I used to tell people, before we had Google Maps, that you could only find us on one of your better maps,” said Gerie Crawford, a lifelong resident and retired assistant director of the county’s court services department. “It’s a small town, with one red light still after all these decades. But it is our home and we do love it.”