8 million Texans boiling water after the wintry blast yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Jose Blanco, right, fills containers with water from a park spigot, Feb. 18, 2021, in Houston. Houston and surrounding cities are under a boil water notice as many residents are still without running water. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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The winter storm crisis is stretching into another day in Texas as the state faces another day of extreme cold. And on top of that, millions of people are facing a water crisis and must boil water to drink.
Power has now been restored to nearly two million homes across the Lone Star State, but 325,000 businesses and homes remain in the dark.
Pamplin Media Group February 10 2021 This is poor leadership, without a moral center, and sets a bad and unwise precedent for us today as well as for future generations looking back on our time for guidance.
I am disappointed (to say the least) in Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority in downgrading the priority of seniors to receive the COVID-19 vaccines from the federal recommendations.
And then there is the chaos with the OHA website and the lack of planning that went into the mechanisms for distributing the vaccines in Oregon.
Other states are already vaccinating seniors but Oregon apparently is playing favorite to those pushing for the schools to re-open. That Oregon s seniors are being reduced in status and endangered by the delay seems an awful lot like age discrimination.
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