Power was restored to more Texans on Thursday, with fewer than a half-million homes remaining without electricity, and many still were without safe drinking water after winter storms wreaked havoc on the state's power grid and utilities this week.

Texas power outages below 500,000 but water crisis persists. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Power was restored to more Texans on Thursday, with fewer than a half-million homes remaining without electricity, and many still were without safe drinking water after winter storms wreaked havoc on the state's power grid and utilities this week. February 18, 2021 Meanwhile, the Appalachians, northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania braced for heavy snow and ice. Snow fell in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. Little Rock, Arkansas, got 15 inches (38 centimeters) of snow in back-to-back storms, tying a 1918 record, the National Weather Service said. More than 320,000 homes and businesses were without power in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Tennessee, 12 people were rescued from boats after a dock weighed down by snow and ice collapsed on the Cumberland River on Wednesday night, the Nashville Fire Department said. The extreme weather has been blamed for the deaths of more than three dozen people, some of whom perished while struggling to keep warm. In the Houston area, one family succumbed to carbon monoxide from car exhaust in their garage. A woman and her three grandchildren died in a fire that authorities said might have been caused by a fireplace they were using. In Texas, just under 500,000 homes and businesses remained without power, down from about 3 million on Wednesday. The state's grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said the remaining outages are largely weather-related, rather than forced outages that were made early Monday to stabilize the power grid. “We will keep working around the clock until every single customer has their power back on,” said ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin. Adding to the misery, the weather jeopardized the state's drinking water systems. Texas officials ordered 7 million people — a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state — to boil tap water before drinking it, following days of record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and froze pipes. Some Austin hospitals faced a loss in water pressure and heat. “Because this is a state-wide emergency situation that is also impacting other hospitals within the Austin area, no one hospital currently has the capacity to accept transport of a large number of patients,” said David Huffstutler, CEO of St. David's South Austin Medical Center. Water pressure has fallen because lines have frozen, and many people left faucets dripping in hopes of preventing pipes from icing over, said Toby Baker, executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Gov. Greg Abbott urged residents to shut off water to their homes, if possible, to prevent more busted pipes and preserve pressure in municipal systems. At Houston Methodist, two of its community hospitals did not have running water but still treated patients, with most non-emergency surgeries and procedures canceled for Thursday and possibly Friday, said spokeswoman Gale Smith. Pipes had burst in Methodist’s hospitals but were being repaired as they happened, Smith said. Texas Children’s Hospital’s main campus at the Texas Medical Center and another location had low water pressure, but the system was adequately staffed and patients had enough water and “are safe and comfortable,” spokeswoman Jenn Jacome said. The hospitals were “all experiencing very crowded emergency rooms due to patients being unable to meet their medical needs at home without electricity,” she said. Weather-related outages also struck Oregon, where some customers have been without power for almost a week. A Portland supermarket threw its perishable food into dumpsters, leading to a clash between scavengers and police. The damage to the power system was the worst in 40 years, said Maria Pope, CEO of Portland General Electric. At the peak of the storm, more than 350,000 customers in the Portland area were in the dark. More than 100,000 customers remained without power Thursday in Oregon. “These are the most dangerous conditions we’ve ever seen in the history of PGE,” said Dale Goodman, director of utility operations, who declined to predict when all customers would have power restored. Utilities from Minnesota to Texas have implemented rolling blackouts to ease the burden on strained power grids. Southwest Power Pool, a group of utilities covering 14 states from the Dakotas to the Texas Panhandle, said rolling blackouts were no longer needed but asked customers to conserve energy until at least 10 p.m. Saturday. The weather also disrupted water systems in several Southern cities, including New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana, where fire trucks delivered water to hospitals and bottled water was brought in for patients and staff, Shreveport television station KSLA reported. Power was cut to a New Orleans facility that pumps drinking water from the Mississippi River. A spokeswoman for the Sewerage and Water Board said on-site generators were used until electricity was restored. Bleed reported from Little Rock, Arkansas. Associated Press journalists Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon.; Juan Lozano in Houston; Rebecca Reynolds Yonker in Louisville, Kentucky., Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama.; Kevin McGill in New Orleans; and Tammy Webber in Fenton, Michigan, contributed. ----------------------- Geographical Research outlined that all 3 Major Rivers that are in the US,comes from Mexico & Water Channelization to water the 3 Rivers from Mexican Ocean,which must be done in Mexico,as the Drought/No River Water in Texas,Arizona & California.Joe Biden with John Kerry to talk to Mexico for it ----------------------------------------------------The US Geo-Racial Origin composited as follows: 1a. The US Core-White Extremist Conservative Americans who formerly originated from:  England, Iceland, Scandinavian Countries, from Poland towards Moscow Russia territories, Germany, Austria, Czech, Hungry. Swiss, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Northern France, Northern Italy. 1b. US Core-White Moderate people who originated from: Irish, Scottish, Walsh & other moderate European White Minorities. 2. US Non Core-White People  who originated from: southern France, Southern Italy, Non White Russian former Soviet Bloc States, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Malta, Mediterranean Non Core-white Europeans. 3. US Black People  who originated from Africa,Non African Blacks from India,Oceanic/Pacific Islands,Asian/ Papua new Guinea. 4. US Colored People who originated from Mexico to Argentina territories. 6. US Chinese people who originated from China. 7. US Japanese  people who  originated from Japan. 8. US Korean people who originated from Korea. 9. US Malay, Philippines, Indonesian people who originated from Malaysia, Philippines, and Indonesia.. 10.American Indians who originated from Native Red Indians. 11. US Fijians, Amerindians & Caribbean people who originated from Fiji/Hawaii &  Caribbean Islands. 12. US Australian/New Zealand Aborigine people who originated from Australian Native Aborigines & New Zealand Native Aborigines with lesser Papua guinea Native Aborigines. Presumably, 20% to 30% Trump/KKK top Members led Core-White Extremist Conservatives used its controlled US political/Economic Stakeholders to coarse & impress the US population Majority and hold the US top vital Post. Trump with past hindsight of KKK/Core-White modus operandi & as a top Beneficiary, recently engaged various US State Securities in dirty in-house fighting, manipulating its independent operational Rules to favor him/his colleagues and to coarse them as to toe Trump  chartered ways & means. Imperatively, moderate Republicans with Democrats should jointly forge democratic ways and means to guide the US State from Trump political onslaught and to minimize US loss, and to create oversea political channels to meet & dialogue with Oversea Governments and bilateral Institutions. The US Billionaire Trump with his vast businesses should have huge communication/transactions’ Data with various US Securities, but the World is at shock that US State Securities could not easily expose or provide the US Public/the World with Trump secret Russia Associations, which is assumed to be with them, rather than US Congress to engage and have to appoint Robert Mueller on the Trump Russia investigation as to uncover the Trump Secret Association with Russia, before Trump/Group dealing with Russia, could be exposed and to provide Public with prerequisite Evidences. These stated US Geo-Racial Origins’ Classification information, are statistically to certify US Public with the Prerequisite US Racial Descendant Origins and put to rest some Generational false US Racial Population & Extremist propagated Voters’ Victory Claim, usually associated with some powerful US interest Groups against the non knowledgeable gullible Majority US people and to denounce so called Trump smart People with its US Racial major Data with its dominating Claim, which assisted the smart people in US to actualize electoral victory through the chartered CIA/FBI maneuvered US Presidential Election’s Victory and to secure themselves their US top Post Allocations/to implement its Race Suppression/Authority. US/Mexico boundary Temporary Border’s Walls were built, as to temporarily fervent cross Border Crimes, but it become imperative that US want to permanent Boundary Border’s Walls, a US/Mexico Boundary Survey Border’s Commission have to be initiated, as to legally define legal surveyed Bordering line for building of legitimate Permanent Walls, any contrary to this, lead US and Mexico to Bordering Walls legation and Court. Before the US/Mexico Border’s Walls building, US appropriate Dept. or Agency have to advise Trump rightly, before plunging the US to unwarranted legal Encumbrances. The US should avoid being seen as a hostile neighbor, which can pave Opportunities for Iran, Russia& China to engage and to woo Mexico into bilateral industrialization along the US- Mexico Border. 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