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Biden Surveys Texas Weather Damage, Encourages Virus Shots
President Joe Biden heard firsthand from Texans clobbered by this month’s brutal winter weather on Friday and pledged to stick with them “for the long haul” as he made his first trip to a major disaster area since he took office.
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Winter Weather Exposes Nation's Aging Waterworks
The snow and ice that crippled some states across the South has melted, but it has exposed the fragility of aging waterworks that experts have been warning about for years.
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Biden to Visit Storm-Ravaged Texas Friday
President Joe Biden will visit Texas on Friday as the state begins its recovery from a devastating winter storm that caused serious damage to homes and businesses across the state and left many without power or clean water for days
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3 Kids, Grandmother Die in Texas House Fire After Trying to Stay Warm During Blackout
Three children and their grandmother died in a house fire last week near Houston during a power outage as historic cold weather swept Texas, according to local officials, NBC News reports. Firefighters received an emergency call around 2 a.m. on Feb. 16 and arrived at Jackie Pham Nguyen’s home shortly after, only to find the structure already “engulfed” in flames,...
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Stranded Delivery Driver Taken in by Texas Couple for 6 Days During Winter Storm
When record cold temperatures, heavy snows and power outages hit Texas this week, many were stuck in their homes or stranded on the roads.
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Power Failure: How a Winter Storm Pushed Texas Into Crisis
The disaster can be traced to mistakes by Texas’ leadership and faults created by decades of opposition to more regulations and preparation.
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Why Some Texans Are Getting Sky-High Energy Bills
After unusual icy weather left millions of Texans without power, some are facing another crisis: Sky-high electricity bills
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Hospitals Confront Water Shortages in Winter Storm Aftermath
Hospitals across the South are grappling with water shortages as the region carries on with recovery efforts in the wake of a devastating winter storm.
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Suspected Hypothermia Deaths in Homes Mount in Texas
With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusual cold, authorities are finding the bodies of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions.
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Frozen Pipes, Electric Woes Remain as Cold Snap Eases Grip
Higher temperatures are spreading across the southern United States, bringing some relief to a region weary of winter
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Overflowing Toilets, Frigid Cells, No Running Water: Inside Texas' ‘Inhumane' Jails
The massive winter storm that walloped the South this week left thousands of Texans without power and running water. Inside the walls of several Texas prisons and jails, incarcerated people have faced abominable conditions, according to interviews with inmates, family members and advocates. Many facilities have gone long stretches with no heat, leaving inmates shivering in their cells. A lack…
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Southern Cities Slammed by Winter Storms Face New Crisis: No Water
Southern cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Busted water pipes ruptured by record-low temperatures have created a shortage of clean drinking water, shut down the Memphis airport on Friday and left hospitals struggling to maintain sanitary conditions.
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Weather Experts: Lack of Planning Caused Cold Catastrophe
This week’s killer freeze in the U.S. was no surprise. Government and private meteorologists saw it coming, some nearly three weeks in advance. They started sounding warnings two weeks ahead of time. They talked to officials. They issued blunt warnings through social media.
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‘Crisis Mode for Weeks and Months:' Slow Recovery Begins in Texas
As temperatures slowly rise, Texans are surveying historic damage left by a week of frigid temperatures and power outages.
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Crisis in Texas: Some Electricity Restored, But Water Woes Persist
Power was restored to more Texans on Thursday, with fewer than a half-million homes remaining without electricity, and many still were without safe drinking water after winter storms wreaked havoc on the state’s power grid and utilities this week.
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‘Obviously a Mistake': Cruz Returns From Cancun After Uproar
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz acknowledged on Thursday that he had traveled to Mexico for a family vacation this week, leaving his home state as thousands of constituents struggled without power or safe drinking water after a powerful winter storm.
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Ted Cruz at Mexico Airport: ‘I'm Headed Back' to Texas
After receiving widespread criticism for flying to Mexico while Texas faces a historic winter storm and power outages, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was photographed checking in at the Cancun, Mexico, airport Thursday. “We had no heat and no power and yesterday,” he told NBC News. “My daughters asked if they could take a trip with some friends, and Heidi and...
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Thousands of Cold-Stunned Sea Turtles Being Rescued in Texas
People have taken thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles to a convention center in South Texas in hopes of saving them during the unusually chilly weather
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Ice Seen on Virginia Roads in Thursday's Winter Storm
News4’s Justin Finch checks out icy, snowy conditions in Virginia during Thursday’s winter storm.
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Power Outages Linger for Millions as Another Icy Storm Looms
Utility crews raced Wednesday to restore power to nearly 3.4 million customers around the U.S. who were still without electricity in the aftermath of a deadly winter storm, and another blast of ice and snow threatened to sow more chaos.