Berylis the latest weather disaster to strike Houston this year after a derecho in May blasted skyscraper windows. It’s in Harris County, which has been the riskiest county in the US for weather since 1980. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick declared a disaster in 121 counties,...
Anger over Texas' power outages in the face of arecord winter freezecontinued to mount Wednesday as millions of residents in the energy capital of the U.S. remained shivering. There were still no assurances that their electricity and heat —out since Mondayin many homes — would return soon ...
Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo compared it toHurricane Harveyin 2017. "This is very different from Harvey, but the scope of the impact is absolutely equivalent and it's something that is impacting not just the millions of people here in Harris County, but all throughout Texas," Hidalgo sai...
To reveal the disparate impact of managed power outages on vulnerable subpopulations in Harris County, Texas, which encompasses the city of Houston, we collected and analyzed community-scale big data using statistical and trend classification analyses. The results highlight the spatial and temporal ...
How this Texas family is trying to stay warm during rolling power outages From CNN's Amanda Jackson Courtesy Ryan Rijken Ryan Rijken said his family in north Texas has been dealing with rolling power outages since around 3 a.m. local time on Monday. ...
But while the unusual Arctic air mass has lashed numerous states with snow and sleet with more on the way Thursday, Texas, the heart of the country's oil industry, has seen the worst of thepoweroutages. Why is Texas suffering an electricity crisis?
RELATED:Tropical Storm Nicholas expected to be big rainmaker for Texas | Check timeline and forecast cone RELATED:Live updates: Lake Houston water level lowered, Harris County Public Health closes COVID sites Power outage preparedness Power out means lights out.You'll want to move your flashl...
The studied PDN is assumed to be in Harris County, Texas, United States. The system contains 7051 wood utility poles, 115 protective devices, and three substations. More details about this PDN can be found in the previous works by the authors (e.g., [8,25,27]). In this network, node...
team of researchers introduces a new model that could be used to identify all critical lines in a power grid, so that they can be enhanced to prevent large-scale outages during extreme weather. To demonstrate their approach, they used it to identify the critical lines in the Texas power ...
Power outages across Texas topped 3 million customers at their peak, many in the greater Houston area, according to the tracking sitePowerOutage.usandreporting by KHOU.As of Tuesday night, that number was down to a little more than 1.73 million, per PowerOutage.us. ...