Multiple people are dead in Texas as a massive winter storm continues to cut off power and heat to millions of Texans all across the state. Approximately four million Texans are without electricity as the state’s power grid continues to fail to keep up with demand.
Several Texas border cities stopped their vaccination efforts due to the sub-freezing temperatures, the lack of electricity, and in some cases the lack of running water.
Texas leaders are scrambling to find out why the state’s power grid was ill-prepared to deal with electrical generation during this week’s massive winter storm. The grid’s energy production failures left millions without electricity, heat, and in some cases, water.
The image of energy-rich Texas is under challenge as a historic polar vortex slows or shuts down power sources like wind and natural gas.
Freezing temperatures have paralyzed power generation plants, leading to rolling blackouts across the south-central part of the country and leaving millions without power.
HOUSTON, Texas — The severe Texas winter storm left a mother and her young daughter dead as they attempted to stay warm. The pair died from carbon monoxide poisoning after running their car in the garage to generate heat.
Nearly half of the wind turbines in the state of Texas froze in recent winter weather, hurting state power supplies, according to state authorities.
A vehicle pileup involving 75-100 cars, trucks, and 18-wheelers left at least 5 people dead and many others injured. The incident took place on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday morning.
A stretch of Highway 1 near Big Sur in California that collapsed this week because of a winter storm will need millions of dollars in repairs.
Homes along the shore of Lake Erie in New York are completely covered in ice thanks to last week’s blizzard-like conditions.
A huge winter storm struck parts of the Northeast with a dangerous mix of snow and ice as it moved offshore over the weekend.
A winter storm is blanketing parts of the U.S., causing snowfall in parts of North Texas and thousands of flights to be canceled at Chicago’s two main airports.
Severe storms are raging across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, damaging homes and threatening lives.
NEW YORK — A powerful winter storm that’s bedeviled Thanksgiving travelers across the United States is taking aim Sunday at the northeast.
Two powerful storms are expected to hit the U.S. this week, threatening the nation’s holiday travel plans.
Several winter storms that have pounded Washington state have killed about 1,600 dairy cows in the area, a group of dairy farmers said Tuesday.
The U.S. East Coast is bracing for freezing cold temperatures and heavy snowfall this weekend, likely bringing challenging travel conditions and power outages to thousands across the regions.
Seven people have died in highway accidents on Saturday related to a winter storm across the Midwest, according to a Reuters report.
A massive winter storm containing rain, sleet, and snow is sweeping the southeastern United States, leaving more than 300,000 without power and 1,500 flights canceled.
(AP) — One of the first big storms of the season moved across the eastern half of the country, leaving five people dead and closing schools as the freakish weather brought snow as far south as Alabama.
A 37-year-old man fatally shot himself in the head in Brooklyn Saturday night during a drunken game of Russian roulette, a law enforcement source said.
The US East Coast has been blanketed in global warming. Layers and layers and layers of it. But don’t worry: it’s not actually real. We know this because of the climate experts and their computer models. (H/T Tom Nelson) Here
Washington, D.C. has proven once again that its city government is inept, as evidenced by the massive failure of preparedness dealing with the snow that covered the city on Wednesday.
The first major storm of 2016 hit the East Coast on Friday and Washington DC is at the center of the storm’s path. The deadly storm has shut down government services and could bury residents in over two feet of snow.
A massive Winter storm featuring bitterly cold temperatures and blizzard conditions has sparked a full shut down of government offices in Washington D.C.
A harsh winter storm is bringing icy roads and snow to the central western region hitting North Texas, South eastern Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The storm is causing heavy rains and cold temps to fan out north and east from Texas bringing a wet weekend for most of the south and midwest. Already over a dozen deaths have been blamed on the storm.
The winter that seemingly won’t quit is set to pack another wallop to the Midwest and eastern potions of the U.S. with blizzard conditions, plummeting temperatures, and a newly named winter storm: Winter Storm Neptune.
The winter storm that swept from Kansas eastward, starting on Sunday morning, has become one for the record books, ranking among the top five worst storms in some cities.
The first winter snowstorm of 2015 is already brewing and promises to stretch from Chicago eastward to Boston, meteorologists say.
