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1 month ago | houstonpublicmedia.org | Mose Buchele

On Feb. 15, 2021, Erik Simpson woke up in Houston without cellphone service, so he went outside looking for a signal. Lack of a phone service was one of many problems afflicting the city that morning. The night before, as a historic winter storm moved into Texas, the state's grid operator had cut power to millions in order to stabilize the electric grid. By daybreak, much of Houston was without power. Pipes were freezing. Simpson said a neighbor's house caught fire.

1 month ago | kut.org | Mose Buchele

On Feb. 15, 2021, Erik Simpson woke up in Houston without cellphone service. So, he went outside looking for a signal. Lack of a phone service was one of many problems afflicting the city that morning. The night before, as a historic winter storm moved into Texas, the state’s grid operator had cut power to millions in order to stabilize the electric grid. By daybreak, much of Houston was without power. Pipes were freezing. Simpson said a neighbor’s house caught fire.

1 month ago | l8r.it | Mose Buchele

On Feb. 15, 2021, Erik Simpson woke up in Houston without cellphone service, so he went outside looking for a signal. Lack of a phone service was one of many problems afflicting the city that morning. The night before, as a historic winter storm moved into Texas, the state’s grid operator had cut power to millions in order to stabilize the electric grid. By daybreak, much of Houston was without power. Pipes were freezing. Simpson said a neighbor’s house caught fire.

1 month ago | dentonrc.com | Mose Buchele

On Feb. 15, 2021, Erik Simpson woke up in Houston without cellphone service, so he went outside looking for a signal. Lack of a phone service was one of many problems afflicting the city that morning. The night before, as a historic winter storm moved into Texas, the state’s grid operator had cut power to millions in order to stabilize the electric grid. By daybreak, much of Houston was without power. Pipes were freezing. Simpson said a neighbor’s house caught fire.

1 month ago | kut.org | Mose Buchele

Kent Hance is a longtime politician from West Texas. He has , as he puts it, “a varied background.”As a state senator, he was the only person ever to beat George W. Bush in an election. He’s also been a congressman, a podcaster and a university chancellor. But it was in 1991, as a departing Texas Railroad commissioner, that he oversaw one of the more surreal footnotes in global energy history. Despite its name, the Railroad Commission regulates oil and gas in Texas.