New report suggests Harris County was hardest hit in Texas by February freeze
Report: Harris County one of the hardest hit by February winter storm
A new report is showing that Harris County was one of the hardest hit counties during the February winter storm. FOX 26 Business Reporter Tom Zizka has more.
HOUSTON - While the weather heats up in Texas, the effects of February s crippling Big Freeze are still being felt. Now, a new survey from the University of Houston s Hobby School of Public Affairs shows how hard Houston and Harris County were hit, compared to the rest of the state.
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.
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Harris County Took Brunt of February Freeze
The February 2021 freeze – the infamous Winter Storm Uri – wreaked havoc across Texas, but the impacts of the storm were more severe in Harris County, according to a report by the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston.
More than nine out of every 10 (91%) Harris County residents lost electrical power at some point as the winter storm rolled through on Feb. 14-20, significantly higher than residents in the other 212 counties within the Texas electrical grid that lost electricity (64%). The average outage for Harris County residents was reported to be 49 hours, a time span that suggests plans for rotating power outages did not work.
Harris County suffered the worst effects of Uri in Texas, says report Nearly 91 percent of Houstonians lost power during the freeze much more than the state average.
Photo by Tyler Horne Houstonians who felt that they were perhaps bearing more of a burden than the rest of Texas during the February 2021 freeze clearly were not imagining it, a new study finds. The impacts of Winter Storm Uri were far more severe in Harris County, according to a new report by the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston. Notably, more than nine out of every 10 residents of Harris County lost electrical power at some point between the storm’s run from February 14-20. That’s about 91 percent significantly higher than the 64 percent of Texas’ 212 counties that lost electricity within the Texas Electrical Grid, which is managed by the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
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