Texas, power grid and winter storm
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Chances are increasing that a winter storm will bring snow, ice, and plunging temperatures to millions across Texas this week.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state’s main power grid, has a dashboard that allows residents to track current conditions and usage. The timestamp of each dashboard indicates when the information was last updated,
Many Texans are having flashbacks to the deadly winter freeze that crippled the state's isolated power grid nearly five years ago.
Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks and utility workers were nervously watching forecasts Thursday as a huge winter storm is barreling toward the eastern two-thirds of the U.
If you have an irrigation system with that little relief bell, there's a couple of screws in there that you can loosen up to release the water pressure and turn those two valves off and then cover that up.
It's time to brace for freezing temperatures. Driving the news: A blast of arctic air is expected to impact much of Texas, and Gov. Greg Abbott has activated state emergency response resources ahead of the possible snow,