A Dallas family ran a duct from their car into the house to keep it heated facing below-freezing temperatures Wednesday. TEXAS POWER GRID RESTORED AFTER DEVASTATING WINTER STORM CAUSES POWER OUTAGES AND SHORTAGESIn Houston, photographs showed residents sleeping in a mattress store that reopened as an emergency shelter earlier this week. Nearly half of Texas’ population was instructed to boil water before drinking it after the icy weather disrupted water treatment facilities. As of Friday evening, there were about 137,000 homes without power reported across Texas, according to PowerOutage.us. Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were experiencing weather-related power outages as well.

Source: Fox News February 20, 2021 02:26 UTC