Texas, located in the southern part of the United States, is experiencing a 100-year cold spell that is causing many inconveniences to the normal Life of local residents. Since last weekend (Feb. 14), Texas has been experiencing freezing weather statewide, affecting the normal operation of the state’s energy system.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Greg Abbott) said, “All energy sources in Texas have been impacted, whether it’s renewable energy, like wind and solar, or as I mentioned today, energy powered by coal and energy powered by natural gas, all have been impacted for reasons that include energy systems being frozen and equipment not functioning. “
In Houston, residents had to go out and buy fuel to keep their homes heated. In addition, the loss of electricity has caused much inconvenience to people’s lives.
Houston resident Liu Shuning told Voice of America, “We have no power, no internet, no nothing. I think the scariest thing was Monday morning, for some reason, we had no cell phone signal for anyone in our Family.”
She revealed that without electricity or internet, the family passes the Time each night by playing cards by candlelight. They had to boil water before drinking it because the water source was also contaminated. Her family, however, was relatively calm about the sudden inconvenience.
My family is from a very poor rural area of China and they are more used to living without heat or electricity,” she said. My grandmother still thinks, what’s the big deal.”
President Biden recently approved a state of emergency in Texas. White House spokeswoman Sage said FEMA is providing generators, diesel, water, and blankets to Texas. However, there is limited outside help that can be provided to Texas.
One of the problems is that our electric system is a stand-alone system,” said Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Texas has never tried to integrate the system with surrounding states, so it’s hard for surrounding states to try to give us help.”
Lacking help from the government, Texas residents have reached out to each other. Mutual aid organizations, shelters, and Food banks are receiving and providing donated goods.
Everyone wants to make sure someone else is doing well,” said Liu Shuning. People are doing a lot of things, and people outside of Texas, or people who have a financial base, can help or make donations to mutual aid organizations.”
On Thursday morning (Feb. 18), power was reported to have been restored to 98 percent of Houston. However, not all residents are distressed by the extreme weather of the last few days.
We have one family member who is very happy about it, and that’s our dog,” said Liu Shuning. She has never seen snow before. She is three years old and she was very excited after seeing the snow.”
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