Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersAfter winter storms continued to barrage the state Tuesday night, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the body overseeing the grid that serves 90 percent of the state’s homes, couldn’t offer a timeline for when power for every Texan would be restored. Over the long weekend, the council had advised local utilities to shed energy use with rolling outages in order to maintain the reliability of the electric system after a surge in demand, or otherwise risk uncontrolled blackouts that will take longer to reverse. Some...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersAfter winter storms continued to barrage the state Tuesday night, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the body overseeing the grid that serves 90 percent of the state’s homes, couldn’t offer a timeline for when power for every Texan would be restored. Over the long weekend, the council had advised local utilities to shed energy use with rolling outages in order to maintain the reliability of the electric system after a surge in demand, or otherwise risk uncontrolled blackouts that will take longer to reverse. Some...WW…

Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersTerry Fisher says he’s busier than three dogs on the same chain chasing the same bone. The owner of Quality Plumbing Galveston says he’s received some six hundred calls a day since Monday—a higher volume than after Hurricane Ike, in U.S. history, crashed into Galveston in 2008. “It’s like a bomb’s gone off,” he says.Winter storms this week that forced Texans to live for hours or days without electricity to hit usually-balmy Galveston Island particularly hard. An estimated in the area went without power earlier in the week, as snow and ice...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersTerry Fisher says he’s busier than three dogs on the same chain chasing the same bone. The owner of Quality Plumbing Galveston says he’s received some six hundred calls a day since Monday—a higher volume than after Hurricane Ike, in U.S. history, crashed into Galveston in 2008. “It’s like a bomb’s gone off,” he says.Winter storms this week that forced Texans to live for hours or days without electricity to hit usually-balmy Galveston Island particularly hard. An estimated in the area went without power earlier in the week, as snow and ice...WW…