Witnesses testify as the Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources holds a joint public hearing to consider the factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. The hearings were the first in Texas since a blackout that was one of the worst in U.S. history, leaving more than 4 million customers without power and heat in subfreezing temperatures.
At least 40 people in Texas died as a result of the storm, and 10 days after the blackout started, more than 1 million people in the state were still under boil-water notices. “It worked from keeping us going into a blackout that we’d still be in today, that’s why we did it,” ERCOT president Bill Magness said. “Now it didn’t work for people’s lives, but it worked to preserve the integrity of the system.”
President Joe Biden is set to fly to Texas on Friday in what would be his first visit to a major disaster site since taking office.
People of texas as much as I know many are giving Ted Cruz crap for leaving to cancun please understand GovAbbott is flying under the spotlight while he lies about the circumstance behind much of the situation.
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