winter weather

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.

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.

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

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,...

When record cold temperatures, heavy snows and power outages hit Texas this week, many were stuck in their homes or stranded on the roads.

The disaster can be traced to mistakes by Texas’ leadership and faults created by decades of opposition to more regulations and preparation.

After unusual icy weather left millions of Texans without power, some are facing another crisis: Sky-high electricity bills

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.

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.

Higher temperatures are spreading across the southern United States, bringing some relief to a region weary of winter

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…

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.

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.

As temperatures slowly rise, Texans are surveying historic damage left by a week of frigid temperatures and power outages.

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.

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.

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...

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

News4’s Justin Finch checks out icy, snowy conditions in Virginia during Thursday’s winter storm.

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.