Buddy and Barbara Preston try to fix a pipe, which froze, as the state of Texas experiences widespread power outages and record-breaking temperatures in Houston, U.S., February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare: A historic winter storm has killed at least 21 people, left millions of Texans without power and spun killer tornadoes into the U.S. Southeast on Tuesday.
“This is my first time snowboarding out in Lubbock. Trust me, it’s not disappointing,“ Antu said. “There is so much powder out on the ground it feels like it’s Colorado almost.”At least 21 people have died in Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Missouri including four killed in a house fire in Sugar Land, Texas, where the power was out, according to police and local media.
“It’s critically, critically important to get the power restored as quickly as possible. It’s priority number one!” Turner said. “No one wants to put vaccine at risk by attempting to deliver it in dangerous conditions,“ department spokesman Douglas Loveday said by email, adding “it is not safe for people to be out across much of Texas.”
“We’re calling it Storm System No. 2, with very similar placement to the previous storm,“ said meteorologist Lara Pagano of the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. In the Southeast, a low-pressure system that developed along the Arctic front created fuel for storms that unleashed at least four tornadoes, said meteorologist Jeremy Grams of the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. One ripped through the Florida Panhandle and two through southwestern Georgia on Monday.