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Heavy snowfall and frigid temperatures are keeping winter storm warnings in effect across the country. Power outages in Texas left some 2 million people in the dark and cold, with temps expected to drop as low as -5 F today.

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As I did with HurricaineHarvey I'm wishing the people of Texas well - while I forget how tedcruz JohnCornyn TexasGOP except johnculberson voted against the Disaster Relief Act of 2013 for NY & NJ SuperStormSandy relief

& many have faced life-threatening mail order pharmacy delays. Many are forced to mail order as the only option of coverage. No-one warns patients that the FDA & the State Boards of Pharmacy don't regulate temperatures as most meds are store in only bags.

Texas outage is tedcruz FAULT!!!

Got down around -30° in Nebraska the last couple days! 🥶

Most of Texas deliberately separated it's power grid from the rest of the country. Except for parts of North Texas, there is no way to send the state electrical energy.

Texas is a shithole. Voting to keep other states from receiving aid and then they’re like “mr nice NeW pWeZiDenT weRe cOld 🥶 sEnD MOnEy”

It's 4.1 million Texans without electricity. I'm one of them.

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*Correction to you’re reporting... over 4 million people without power. texaspoweroutage 👇

Republitards are doing a great job running Texas into the ground.

Death by Deregulation. Texans should sue their gov.

Yup clinate change at work

More like 4.3 million without power in Texas this morning.

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and remember that while this is happening Joe is putting more logs on the fire, by himself they said, and Nancy Pelosi is still brokeback mountain all over Trump enjoying it yet?

Out of power for 32+ hours and counting. It's 40 degrees in my house now, I shudder to think how elderly folks are doing . My pups are the only thing keeping me warm. ERCOT_ISO and GregAbbott_TX need to answer for this gross negligence. People are suffering.

Yeah! Baby!

Millions freezing, huddled in cars, hanging on for dear life “Here’s a photo of fun sledding with a dog!” 😒

Maybe they will turn Blue

Not only Texas.

Texas should have raked the snow , they told me they do that in Norway!

Power outages -- because 23% of Texas' power comes from windmills. About which the grid operators laments: 'At the same time, we are dealing with higher-than-normal generation outages due to frozen wind turbines.'

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