(Natural News) On a normal day, plumbers like David Crow would be ecstatic to have their office phones ringing off the hook. But when a cold snap in February caused statewide blackouts, he was overwhelmed as his company received a shocking 2,200 calls in 24 hours. North Texans unprepared for deep freeze and plumbing issues According to […]

(Natural News) Millions of Texans were without power for two straight days after a historically cold winter strained the state’s electricity grid, triggering a public health emergency in the country’s second-most populous state. The power outages earlier this week prompted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to open an inquiry into the incident. The agency said […]

(Natural News) An energy expert has called the power emergency in Texas a “system-wide failure” at nearly every level that could have been prevented for a steep price. Jesse Jenkins, assistant professor of energy systems engineering at Princeton University, pointed out that homes in Texas are not designed to deal with very cold weather, which caused customers […]

(Natural News) The power grid in Texas was just “seconds and minutes” away from a disastrous failure that could have resulted in months of total blackout, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said Thursday, Feb. 18. ERCOT, which manages 90 percent of the power grid Texas uses, received intense criticism from state officials, including Gov. […]

(Natural News) Washington DC is turning America into a cesspool of a third-world nation. Texas officials are facing massive criticism for the catastrophic events in Texas, and deaths from the freeze and power outages as well as the water and food shortages that stemmed from said outages, yet new information shows that the Biden administration […]

(Natural News) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a temporary moratorium on all electricity billing throughout the Lone Star State after some customers were charged thousands of dollars for just a few days of power. Following the deadly winter storm that left millions of Texans without power, Abbott convened an emergency meeting with state lawmakers […]

(Natural News) As things in Texas trickle back towards some semblance of normal post-blackout, the blaming and finger-pointing has begun. Who or what is responsible for the absolute debacle that left millions of Texans without electricity during record-cold temperatures? According to one group, failed wind turbines are to blame. Cascend Strategy published a report that […]

(Natural News) The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the main body that manages the state’s primary electric grid, is being sued for ignoring repeated warnings regarding the vulnerabilities in Texas’ power infrastructure. A separate lawsuit involving the death of an 11-year-old, possibly to hypothermia, is accusing ERCOT of gross negligence and putting profits over […]

(Natural News) With the worst of the Texas power crisis now behind us, the blame and fingerpointing begins, and while the jury is still out whose actions (or lack thereof) may have led to the deadly and widespread blackouts that shocked Texas this week, Cascend Strategy writes that “in case there was any doubt why the Texas […]

(Natural News) The “Texageddon” blackouts and near-collapse of all infrastructure (food, fuel, cell towers, power grid, water systems, emergency services, roads, etc.) taught us all some very difficult lessons in survival. We learned that the infrastructure is far more vulnerable than most people thought, and we saw with our own eyes that most people still […]