Here’s what you need to know:
• 2 million Texas households are without power
• Dallas urges residents to reduce their electricity usage
• Houston mayor seeks answers on how outages were handled
• Texas cities open emergency shelters
• 100,000 Fort Worth residents receive boil water notice
• State sending extra resources to help across Texas
The state’s electric grid operator lost control of the power supply Monday morning as 2 million Texas households didn’t have heat or other electric appliances working at home while a massive winter storm delivered freezing temperatures across the state.
When the state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, began ...