texas weather

Nicholas has sustained winds of 75 mph as it makes landfall late tonight near Freeport, Texas

Due to freezing temperatures and rain, there's a sheet of ice on many roads, streets, bridges and overpasses in and around Lufkin and Nacogdoches, a number of schools and other agencies are closed today.  If there is any good news in this, it's that there probably won't be any rolling power blackouts today. ERCOT - the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas - is, however, urging people to set th

A second day of controlled blackouts may not be necessary, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said early Thursday because “immediate concerns for the possibility of rotating outages this morning are reduced.” ERCOT said it will continue to monitor the state’s electric grid for lost power generation...