by Daryl Slusher | Mar 3, 2021 | Coronavirus
The Governors of Texas and Mississippi yesterday lifted coronavirus restrictions, including mask requirements and capacity limitations on all businesses. Texas Governor Greg Abbott was the first to make the announcement followed a few hours later by Mississippi...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 25, 2021 | Texas Deep Freeze
Let’s begin this update with a multiple choice quiz. Please fill in how you think Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended the first paragraph of his statewide speech Wednesday night. Here is the beginning: “My fellow Texans. Good evening from the state emergency operations...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 23, 2021 | Texas Deep Freeze
The snow and ice are gone, but the tragic impacts linger. At the peak of power outages four million Texans were without power; some, including many Austinites for up to 90 hours, as the state’s coldest temperatures in decades persisted for a week. Bursted pipes...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 17, 2021 | Texas Deep Freeze, True Stories
Let’s hit a few points not covered in the accompanying article. First, a lot of questions were raised yesterday about why downtown Austin was still lit up while adjacent East Austin was almost totally dark — as were many other parts of town. Austin Energy responded...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 17, 2021 | Texas Deep Freeze
With millions of Texans suffering without power for days now, in a record breaking deep freeze, Governor Greg Abbott is desperately looking for somebody to blame — anybody but the state government he leads. First he went after the leaders of ERCOT (Electric...
