A major winter storm has now knocked out power to tens of thousands of Texas on Thursday morning.
As The Hill reports:
According to poweroutage.us, another 24,000 customers in Arkansas have also lost power. These outages comes roughly one year after massive power outages swept across the Lone Star State, resulting in over 200 deaths and prompting criticisms of the state’s preparedness against colder temperatures.
The National Weather Service said on Thursday that “an ongoing significant winter storm is expected to impact much of the central and Northeastern U.S. through Friday night.” Additionally, the agency forecast that a “corridor of heavy ice accumulation is likely from Texas through the Ohio River Valley.”
NWS Fort Worth said on Twitter that Hunt, Fannin and Collin County in northwestern Texas received the highest amount of freezing rain and ice overnight. Winds are expected to increase on Thursday and tree breakage will continue to occur.
Several roads in North Texas are covered in ice and sleet, and the NWS warned that conditions would not improve despite the precipitation letting up, due to continued cold temperatures and cloudy skies.
Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) Chairman Peter Lake had previously stated on Wednesday that “The grid is ready, and the lights will stay on for Texans.”\
I grew up in Kansas, remember walking to school backwards into the freezing wind and blowing snow, after feeding the livestock in the barn…..
tough life, tougher climate to live in, not for me.
I too am a former Kansan. been in Texas 20 years now, Kansas can have some downright nasty winters. I’ll take Texas, no power outages where I’m at.
Interesting how winter storms has replaced the UKRAINE in the news, more MSM making the news rather than reporting the news, with integrity.
Right. Last night I was explaining to daughter and grandchildren that the news is always subject to filter, yet never so blatant and scary as today. The media need not lie; all they have to do is to report selectively. We hear just what somebody, somewhere wants us to hear.
Not a rerun for 2-21 TX Freeze event??
It is a rerun and this has happened many times in the past. All the Texans fun to Colorado during major wind events called hurricanes. And now what icy roads? Happened last year too.
When I was but a Towheaded Boy growing up in North Alabama, I remember one year that the snow got so deep we had to POOP into the Shotgun then shoot it up the chimney because we could not get the door open to go to The Outhouse.
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The headline says storm knocks out power to tens of thousands. That was last year during a much worse storm. This year very few people have had power problems. Click bait headline.
Well good enough.
So what is the story here and what cities/counties lost power, I am in El Paso, all good, I got a kid in McAllen, all good and a kid in Austin, all good. So where is the problem??? This “story” is BS.
I used to be a skeptic, but now I’m a believer in AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), I mean Climate Change. Back when I was a kid in the ’50s in Chicago, it was waaay cold in October November, December, January, February, March and up through April when we used to sing, “I’m dreaming of a white (snow, not White, Racist, Supremacists) Easter particularly with the wind off Lake Michigan. It started getting warmer and warmer until it was -81F with wind chill off the lake December ’83. Finally escaped to Colorado where it’s been a constant 15F, a mile closer to the sun and the snow isn’t even melting. When I got out her in ’88, no matter what the temperature was, if the sun was shining, I could be out in shorts and a t-shirt.
ALGORE and Ocrazio and all the rest of the watermelon (green on the outside, but red on the inside) Commie clowns are right, we’re all either going to get poached when the oceans boil over, or fry if we’re in the mountains.
Well I’ll be durned.
LISTEN UP….THERE is POWER in PRAYING. GOD Can BRING the GOOD Out of the EVIL SATAN Does. The JUST Shall LIVE By FAITH. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄😇😇😇
Yep God is in control even if we don’t like the weather. Mother Nature and Father Time have always been around.
It is important to keep an historical context to weather and climate issues. No doubt, it has been worse sometime before. But then there are records to be made as well, and then remembered.
Can’t any data be totally accurate?
Even being the stupidest blue state in the nation and grew up there and am still there, I always wonder why Texas is so attractive to so many who believe that California is the only place where heathens live and also pleasure seekers. I am here to tell you that California is such a varied state of weather it all depends on where you live what is hot and what is cold and what is temperate. And even here in major earthquake country we do not like driving on ice.