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Millions of Texans woke up frustrated and freezing this morning as their electricity, and, therefore, heat, remained off in the middle of a major storm.
“I know people are angry and frustrated. So am I,” said the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner.
The power grid failed in the face of the massive snowfall and single-digit temperatures, and there is no certainty about when it will be fixed.
“We are very angry,” one resident said. “I was checking on my neighbor, she’s angry, too. This is a complete bungle.”
The outages have resulted in “several carbon monoxide deaths,” too, according to officials.
“This is unacceptable,” said Governor Greg Abbott.
So far, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that the state had sought 60 generators and opened 35 “warming shelters” that could provide relief to over 1,000 people. But two of those shelters also lost power.
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