A strong storm sweeps Texas State claimed the lives of 21 people and deprived millions of urban and rural areas of electricity and the local grid failed under heavy demand for energy.
Many houses in various parts of the states suffered from huge damage.
Millions are rarely suffering, in Texas, from such lousy weather, the mercury slides below zero degrees.
Experts warn that broken weather will run until the weekend.
Other states such as North Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri across the USA registered few deaths during the last days.
Local officials in the plagued states warn of the devastative consequences of the severe cold spell as people were left without heating for three days in a row.
Officials in Texas informed the local residents that the energy supply may be resumed next week.
They recommended people in more than 100 counties to boil drinking water as the stations of processing hadn’t received any shipments of fuel over the recent days.
Some twelve million people did not get drinking water in their homes despite the statehouse 29 million people.
Official statics published by the Electricity Council in Texas revealed that about 2.7 million houses are still without electricity for days.
Meanwhile, owners of cars in Texas used them as makeshift shelters to get heating at night.
It is worth noting that Texas runs an independent electric grid.
The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather.
Republicans blame frozen wind turbines, but the problem was much bigger than that Texas's independent power grid was crippled under high demand and damaging weather after a historic cold snap hit the U.S. over Presidents' Day weekend, according to the Washington Post.
When it gets really cold, it can be hard to produce electricity, as customers in Texas and neighboring states are finding out. But it’s not impossible.
Operators in Alaska, Canada, Maine, Norway, and Siberia do it all the time.
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