Texas is slowly coming out of a historic deep freeze that left millions of residents without power and water for several days.
Power is being restored across the state. In Austin, the local power company said nearly 97% of its customers had power Friday morning. A citywide notice to boil water remained in effect, but many residents were still without water and the city could not say when water service would be restored.
Natasha Harper-Madison, a member of Austin’s City Council and mayor pro-tem, calls the Texas weather disaster “a Katrina-scale crisis” and an “absolutely awful nightmare.”
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