FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
‘I hate the dark’: For Texas kids dealing with COVID-19 losses, isolation and food insecurity, the winter storm is another blow
Talia Richman and Corbett Smith, The Dallas Morning News, (TNS)
DALLAS The 100th Day of School is a big event at Frank Guzick Elementary. Kids sprinkle baby powder in their hair to look as if they’re centenarians. They decorate T-shirts with rows of safety pins or Cheerios, adding more and more until they hit triple digits.
This year’s celebration was supposed to be on Friday, and it had taken on a special meaning among some in the East Dallas community.
‘I hate the dark’: For Texas kids dealing with COVID-19 losses, isolation and food insecurity, the winter storm is another blow
The long-lasting effects of this traumatic year could “change a generation.”
Rosa Mendoza and son David Sanroman, 7, smile as the power comes back on while she was preparing him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich following a power outage at their Piedmont Addition apartment in Dallas on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Mendoza s pipes burst Tuesday and hasn t had consistent power. (Juan Figueroa/ The Dallas Morning News)(Juan Figueroa / Staff photographer)
The 100th Day of School is a big event at Frank Guzick Elementary. Kids sprinkle baby powder in their hair to look as if they’re centenarians. They decorate T-shirts with rows of safety pins or Cheerios, adding more and more until they hit triple digits.
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Actual rotating outages could begin, full power restoration still not known, ERCOT says
Rotating outages across neighborhoods is the best-case scenario, ERCOT leaders say.
Power crews work in a darkened apartment complex after a second winter storm brought more snow and continued freezing temperatures, and continuing power outages, to North Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Richardson.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
The state’s power grid operators hoped rotating outages would actually begin by the end of Wednesday, calling it the “best case” so thousands of Texans aren’t shouldering entire outages.
That means some folks who held onto their power so far during the winter storm might have their electricity knocked out for short periods of time, while others might get stints of power, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Wednesday.