However, about 60 million people were still under winter weather advisories or warnings Friday morning, and about 30 million were under a hard freeze warning. In Texas, power outages also have wreaked havoc on water supplies, in part because frozen water lines have been bursting. "We went to multiple H-E-Bs and searched for about six to eight hours Tuesday for food," he told CNN by phone from Pflugerville, Texas. Other states also dealing with snow & iceTexas is not the only state feeling the fury of the winter weather. In the Northeast, over 60 million are under winter weather alerts, but a vast majority of them will expire by the end of Friday.

Source: The Nation February 19, 2021 13:30 UTC