Higher temperatures bring relief as cold-weary South starts cleanup

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Higher temperatures are spreading across the southern United States, bringing some relief to the winter-weary region.

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Deadly blast of winter overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions in the deadly cold this week.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met Saturday with legislators to discuss energy prices, Nim Kidd, head of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, told reporters. Some Texans could be facing massive increases in electric bills after wholesale energy prices skyrocketed.Water woes added misery for people across the South who went without heat or electricity for days after the ice. Snowstorms forced rolling blackouts from Minnesota to Texas.

The city was providing water for flushing toilets and drinking. But residents had to pick it up, leaving the elderly and those living on icy roads vulnerable. “They give them no extra blankets. No extra anything. For them, it’s just been fend for yourself,” said Maturin, president of the nonprofit H.O.P.E. Foundation.

The Saturday thaw after 11 days of freezing temperatures in Oklahoma City left residents with burst water pipes, inoperable wells and furnaces knocked out of operation by power blackouts.Rhodes College in Memphis said Friday that about 700 residential students were being moved to hotels in the suburbs of Germantown and Collierville after school bathrooms stopped functioning because of low water pressure.

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