Tag Archives: Power outages

Thousands of people in Dallas-Fort Worth dealt with outages Thursday evening after a thin line of thunderstorms passed through the area. More than 3,000 Oncor customers were without power as of 7:30 p.m., according to a map on the company’s website, which showed a large number of outages in southern Dallas. “In Oak Cliff and South Dallas, we did see a significant …

A brutal winter storm brought Christmas Day danger and misery to millions of Americans on Sunday as intense snow and frigid cold gripped parts of the eastern United States, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 32. A crisis situation unfolded in Buffalo, in western New York, where a blizzard left the city marooned, with emergency services unable to reach the worst-hit …

PHILADELPHIA: The cleanup and mourning continued on Friday as the north-east US recovered from record-breaking rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. At least 48 people in five states died as storm water cascaded into people’s homes and engulfed automobiles, overwhelming urban drainage systems never meant to handle so much rain in such a short time. The toll was highest …

AUSTIN — A new set of Texas electricity regulators began to take shape Monday, as Gov. Greg Abbott nominated a finance expert to be the next chairman of the Public Utility Commission while his earlier choice of a PUC member moved toward Senate confirmation. The Republican governor put forward Peter Lake of Austin, who has spent more than five years …

The mayor of a West Texas town said Tuesday that he had already resigned after he was widely condemned for writing on Facebook that people suffering in the cold without power shouldn’t look to their local governments for help. Tim Boyd, who was mayor of Colorado City, made his original, typo-ridden post Tuesday morning, writing that “no one owes you …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Power outages, fallen trees, and flooding were all that was left of strong thunderstorms that passed through the area overnight. In a northeast Fort Bend County portion of southwest Houston, a large tree blocked one residential street and left a home damaged on West Ridge Creek Dr. A Fort Bend resident explains how her and her …