The grid had enough power but couldn’t get it to customers.
had no electricity today as the icy storm that started Monday entered its final stretch.
This week’s blackouts, however, played out much differently than the 2021 disaster. And fortunately, the ice storm is to finally ease up today. But it was another reminder of the work left to do to shore up Texas’ fragile grid.The hashtag #TexasFreeze trended once again with scenes of vehicles skidding on ice-covered roadways and frozen trees wrecking power lines. There’s also finger-pointing —, as well as understandable frustration with officials for failing to prevent another round of massive outages.
Ice build-up on tumbling tree limbs and power lines has been the biggest danger this time, according to
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