Louisiana among numerous states reeling under harsh weather, massive outages
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Thursday, February 18 2021
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BATON ROUGE - Though temperatures are no longer below freezing in Baton Rouge, thousands remain without power and dangerously cold temperatures continue to pose a threat.
In East Baton Rouge Parish alone, nearly 10,000 are still awaiting power restoration as of Thursday (Feb. 18) morning at 6:15 a.m., according to Entergy s outage map.
On Wednesday, Governor John Bel Edwards requested a presidential emergency declaration due to the severe winter weather.
The request Edwards submitted to President Biden included a petition for direct federal assistance, specifically in response to extended power outages and also Emergency Protective measures under the FEMA Public Assistance program.
Winter storms threaten to blanket the East Coast in ice after turning fatal for Southerners trying to keep warm
Dozens of people across the United States have died from a spate of winter storms and now the weather is threatening to pummel the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with snow and ice.
More than 100 million people stretching from Texas to Massachusetts are under a winter storm warning or winter weather advisory, and more days of deep freeze could mean a multiplication of the harrowing tales of hardship.
The blistering cold weather that has brought blankets of snow and widespread power outages in Texas as well as Oklahoma is expected to move east Thursday, bringing with it a half an inch of ice to parts of North Carolina and Virginia, according to CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward.
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Winter weather threatens to blanket the East Coast in ice after turning fatal for Southerners trying to keep warm
Dozens of people across the United States have died from a spate of winter storms and now the weather is threatening to pummel the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with snow and ice.
More than 100 million people stretching from Texas to Massachusetts are under a winter storm warning or winter weather advisory, and more days of deep freeze could mean a multiplication of the harrowing tales of hardship.
Angel Garcia and her family in Killeen, Texas, have been rationing oxygen tanks for her 5-month-old son, who was born with underdeveloped lungs. Garcia, a nurse, is watching him constantly, she said. The family lost power Monday night and was running out of wood, so they burned her 3-year-old daughter’s baby blocks in the fireplace, she said.