Global News published this video item, entitled “Texas power plants back online, but 325,000 households still in the dark, governor says” – below is their description.
Power was restored to more Texans on Thursday, with fewer than a half-million homes remaining without electricity, but many still were without safe drinking water after winter storms wreaked havoc on the state’s power grid and utilities this week.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said power has been restored to nearly 2-million homes across Texas, and 325,000 are still without power due to downed lines or the need to manually reconnect to power.
Energy operators and state leaders like Abbott are facing withering criticism for the prolonged outages due to the freezing temperatures that began four days ago.
Abbott said he has asked state legislators to push through laws mandating that all energy generating plants in Texas “winterize” their facilities like those in colder states do, in the hope that future cold snaps don’t result in electrical grid failures.
The lack of power has cut off water supplies for millions, further strained hospitals’ ability to treat patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and isolated vulnerable communities with frozen roads still impassable in parts of the state.
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