I am Carl Azuz. Thank you for taking 10 minutes to watch our show.
Major winter storm stikes America hitting states like Texas is specially hard. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the country is weathering is back to back winter systems and that’s put a batter about 125million Americans, more than a third of the U.S. population under some sort of weather alert. Most of this warning these warnings stract stretch from Texas to New England, the though winter weather harzard affected has effected states from Washington to Michigan as well.
Many of the people who are feeling it the most are those whose power has been knocked out. Several million of them in Texas. and authorities are warning people to be especally careful if they are trying to warm their homes without the power on.
They see say the portable gas-powered generators should never be used inside. Fire places and woodstoves and conversion combustion heaters should only be used if they’re vented correctly to the outside. Cars should never be left running inside a garage, even with the garage door open. All of these raised the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning which has been blamed for several of the deaths that had have been reported during this these winter storms.
In the southeastern Texas city of Houston, scores of people waited for up to 6 hours to get inside a shelter that was set up at the a convention center. Others whose eletricity and water weren’t running in at home lined up their cars for fast food in some cases waiting 4 hours to get to the drive-thru.
Last year, natural gas and coal generated more than half of Texas’s electricity. These plants need water to stay online and with water facilities frozen in the cold temperatures, some companies can’t produce electricity. Winter Wind turbines like these are responsible for around 25% of Texas’s energy production.
We told you yesterday how some froze up or shut down during the storms. Experts said say the turbines weren’t prepared with antifreeze for instance for the freezing frigid weather. Nuclear power accounts for about 11% of Texas’s electricity and at least one nuclear unit shut down because it also needs water.
So the results of all of this, Texasans are stuck in the cold.
Millions of Texasans are once again spending a brutal and dangerously cold night in their homes. This is because there are still millions of people without electrical power in their homes. This is the third night in a row that the power is still allowed out to millions homes close to stay across the state because of this winter storm that blew in Sunday night into the state.
There’s another storm expected to come through on Wednesday as well but the question remains. When will the electrical system be back up to full strength to get people the ability to warm up their homes? and as hard as make it may seemed to believe, we just don’t have a clear answer at this point
We spoke with the chief executive of the Texas power grid on Tuesday who said they had hoped to restore power on Tueday and Wednesday but that is not clear. It`s not clear that that’s gonna happen.
We’ve hear heard from local and state officials who seemed to suggest that there are other issues at play here. The governor is saying that natural gas pipelines are frozen. So it could take longer to restore that power and -- and get that power into the system so that people can warm up their homes.
The Botton line here is, we just don’t have any answers as to when the full strength of the Texas electrical system will be back up and run it running so that millions of people don’t have to spend another night in the dangerous cold once again.
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February 18, 2021
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