A primary winter typhoon that lashes the US and its allies in the Middle East have been able to find a primary winter typhoon. But it’s not the first time It has about 170 million Americans in winter weather warnings and threatens to temporarily discontinue the deployment of the Covid-19 vaccine, with many southern cities already closed due to dangerously low temperatures, power outages, and icy roads. .
More than 3 million Americans were left without force on Monday morning, and Texas accounted for more than 2. 5 million blackouts, according to a tracker.
While ERCOT, the corporate force serving most Texas, has warned its consumers that they oppose “revolving outages,” which are controlled outages, many on social media have complained that they have spent long periods of electricity at record temperatures.
“These are not power outages,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Twitter Monday morning, describing the cuts as “system-full power outages” and urging citizens to “do their best to stay warm safely. “
Arkansas and Oklahoma also recorded thousands of power outages on Monday, while some in the state were unable to access water on Sunday after low temperatures hit a remedy plant in Oklahoma City.
According to CNN, at least 11 other people have been killed in weather-related vehicle injuries since bloodless temperatures spread across the country last week, and airports are cancelling flights due to conditions.
Meanwhile, many states have been forced to go to Covid-19 vaccination sites due to roads and harmful temperatures.
Several states, including Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, have been forced to close or reduce some of their immunization clinics due to the storm, which is expected to move northeast through Tuesday. -Run vaccination sites during the first two days of this week, while many other sites in North Texas remain closed due to the weather.
“Winter is key to COVID-19 vaccination efforts” (The Weather Channel)
“Continued power outages begin in Texas as a massive winter storm” (The Texas Tribune)
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