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It was the coldest winter storm for Texas since December 1989.” Months after the freeze, many Fort worth residents were still reeling from the event that damaged many homes and upended just as ...
More than 10,000 homes and businesses in Texas and Louisiana were without power as of Wednesday afternoon after ice-coated limbs broke off trees and cut power lines, utilities data showed.
With more than 4.4 million power outages in Texas alone, authorities shut down inoculation sites and scrambled to use 8,400 vaccines that require subzero refrigeration before they spoiled after a ...
In 2011, Texas was hit by the Groundhog Day blizzard between February 1 and 5, resulting in rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state. [27] Many roads around Houston were impassable, and boil-water advisories were issued in several areas. [28]
The February 15–20, 2021 North American winter storm, also unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Viola, or to some as simply The North Texas Freeze, was a significant and widespread snow and ice storm across much of the United States, Northern Mexico, and Southern Canada.
The storm was initially reported to have caused 70 deaths across the United States, [43] [44] [9] later updated to at least 276 people dead, 246 of them in Texas. [4] [8] A BuzzFeed study in May 2021 estimated that the winter storm may have killed a total of 702 people in Texas, which would add hundreds of deaths to the official death toll if ...
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered ...
A record low temperature at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport of −2 °F (−19 °C) on February 16 was the coldest in North Texas in 72 years. [30] Power equipment in Texas was not winterized , leaving it vulnerable to extended periods of cold weather, leading to widespread power outages.