Jack Healy reported from Dallas, Richard Fausset from Atlanta, and James Dobbins from San Antonio. Snow covering grounds of the Texas Capitol on FebruOn February 10, a winter storm formed north of the Gulf coast, dropping significant amounts of sleet and ice on many states in the Deep South and the Ohio Valley, including Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, as well as states on the East Coast. “It makes me want to cry just to say it,” she said. “They went through one horrible trauma, came to our organization to get safe and had another trauma,” Paige Flink, chief executive of the Family Place, said. “They lost basically everything,” Shelbi Driver, a resident advocate at the shelter, said.Īdvocates said at least three other domestic violence shelters around Dallas were also evacuated after pipes burst and flooded their hallways with frigid water, displacing hundreds of vulnerable people who did not have the option of going home. The residents and staff members tried to sweep out the water and piled up bedsheets to create dams, but soon gave up and hurriedly piled into five city buses to seek shelter at a church. The water soaked their clothes and the few possessions they had brought, spoiling hard-to-replace legal documents. The head of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, warned on Thursday that the state was “not out of the woods yet,” due largely to the enduring cold.Īt the Family Place, a domestic violence shelter in Dallas, the power had been out for two days when the waterlogged ceiling caved in, unleashing a freezing waterfall onto the 120 women and children seeking refuge there. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said they had made 60 generators available “to support critical infrastructure” in Texas and were providing the state blankets, bottled water and meals. And then we had a hard freeze the last couple of days, so as a result a lot of the pipes are freezing over and that is stopping flow to some people’s houses or causing low pressure.”ĭays of glacial weather have left at least 38 people dead nationwide, made many roads impassable, disrupted vaccine distribution and blanketed nearly three-quarters of the continental United States in snow. “We have two water plants - one of them went down, and we also have power outages. “They had freezing water lines,” he said. What went wrong during the February 2021 winter. Brown guessed that half of the utility’s 110,000 customers were completely without water. Since many power plants in Texas rely on natural gas as a fuel source, the state’s natural gas supply chain is critical to the flow of electricity.
Corey Brown, an employee at Tyler Water Utilities - which serves the city of Tyler in the northeast part of Texas - said the temperature was in the 20s on Thursday, which complicated efforts to restore water service.
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