Two years ago this week, Texans woke up to snow. Not the annual heavy frost or light dusting. It was honest-to-God snow, MoseBuchele writes. A thick blanket of it, inches deep, had covered everything while we slept. And, for millions, the power was out.
The 2021 winter storm left millions of Texans without power in below-freezing temperatures for days.
Another neighbor volunteered that the windmills in West Texas had stopped working, causing the blackout. I felt no need to correct him right then. But, of course, that line would come back, repeated by our Governor, to sow confusion about the cause of the disaster that I didn’t yet know was unfolding.
The next morning, on the drive to the hotel that the station had found for us, the full scope of the crisis started coming into focus. Throughout the crisis, state and local authorities often seemed absent or incapable of grasping the magnitude of what was happening. But everywhere you looked, you saw people helping people.A home in Austin set up a charging station for people who needed it during the 2021 winter storm.
Six days after the storm hit, it was T-shirt weather again in Austin. But for millions of people, our sense of what it meant to live in Texas would never be the same.As an energy reporter, I went into this experience with more knowledge about how the power grid works than many people. My job during the blackout was mainly to work as a translator, turning incomprehensible statements from politicians and regulators into usable information for the public.
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