Hurricane Ian flooded cities, turned out the lights on millions, and left migrants from an overturned boat missing on Thursday as Florida assessed damage from one of the most intense US storms in years.
February 17, 2021
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“I have never, in my 27 years that I have grown up in Texas, ever experienced something like this. This is completely new to me. It s a little bit nerve-wracking,” Areli Gonzalez said.
No power and no heat. That’s what millions of Texans are facing as a historic winter storm grips the state.
And now there are concerns hotels are jacking up prices as people look to escape the cold.
“We got the room at the price it was supposed to be booked at. But I did hear about [price gouging]. And it honestly made me completely upset at the fact that there are health care workers that need to get to work safely to be able to take care of people, and if they re price gouging, that s completely unfair,” Gonzalez said.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Background
Over Presidents’ Day weekend 2021, an unprecedented cold weather event hit the Midwest and South central United States. The storm led to major disruptions to infrastructure throughout the region, including icy road conditions, frozen pipes, and an estimated 3 million Texans still without power.
[1] This is the result of a confluence of circumstances, including but not limited to frigid temperatures freezing generation and transmission equipment, shortages in natural gas supply and energy demand greatly exceeding supply, and Texas’ practice of operating separately from the rest of the bulk electric system.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (“ERCOT”), Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (“SPP”), and Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (“MISO”) are implementing rolling blackouts throughout the affected regions in an attempt to ensure no area is without power for too long. Nonetheless, the blackou
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U.S. energy crisis leaves millions without power in big freeze
Brian K. Sullivan and Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg
Feb. 16, 2021
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Pump jacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, U.S, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. The arctic freeze gripping the central U.S. is raising the specter of power outages in Texas and ratcheting up pressure on energy prices already trading at unprecedented levels. Photographer: Matthew Busch/BloombergMatthew Busch/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) The energy crisis crippling power grids across the U.S. showed no sign of abating on Tuesday morning as blackouts left almost 5 million customers without electricity during unprecedented cold weather.