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...
