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by Brewing America | Mar 4, 2021 | All, Business, Energy, ERCOT, News, Politics, Texas Railroad Commission, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
As Texans begin to thaw out from the mid-February freeze that led to widespread outages across the state and left more than four million homes without power, the long-term costs of the electricity crisis are just beginning to...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 3, 2021 | All, Energy, Natural Gas, News, Politics, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
“Let the Yankee bastards freeze in the dark” was a popular refrain among Texans in the seventies, who felt that the federal government was depriving them of their natural gas by compelling them to ship it to the Northeast and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 28, 2021 | All, Animals, Exotic wildlife, Outdoors, Wildlife, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
The spotted fawn was leaning against the screen door of Daniel Oppenheimer’s back porch near Luckenbach. Oppenheimer found it when he ventured outside on the first morning of last week’s record freeze. The fawn had died in the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 27, 2021 | All, blackouts, Energy, News, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
In postmortems by national publications about what led to the widespread power outages in Texas last week, the state’s independent electrical grid was often blamed, and characterized as a prime example of the state’s hubris. Yet...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 26, 2021 | All, Food, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
Shrimp gumbo and beef tamales. Chicken spaghetti and chitterlings. Chapati bread and homemade biscuits. If my math’s right, PB&Js by the millions. Texans from across the state emerged from a surreal, frozen week with...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 26, 2021 | All, Beyonce, hollywood texas, Matthew McConaughey, The Culture, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
Hollywood has surely never seemed so far from Texans’ minds as in the last two weeks. Not only did the most brutal winter storm we’ve seen in generations sweep away any idle thoughts of movie stars sunning themselves along the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 25, 2021 | All, Food, News, restaurant news, Taco trucks, Tacos, taquerias, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
Numerous taco trucks and restaurants offered free food, potable water, and even shelter during last week’s winter storm, which knocked out power to approximately four million Texas households. Boombox Taco’s staff made more than...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 25, 2021 | All, Breweries, Food, Southern Smoke, Texas Restaurants, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
For Tiffany Derry, the rolling blackouts were more predictable at the restaurant than at her house. The Plano chef lives five minutes away from her restaurant, Roots Chicken Shak, and while the electricity “didn’t want to roll...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 22, 2021 | All, COVID-19, Medicine, News, Peter Hotez, Vaccines, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
Last week, Texans had to endure two crises at once: the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating impact of a severe winter storm that paralyzed the state’s power grid. Indoor social visits may have been inadvisable for the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 22, 2021 | All, Best Thing In Texas, Colt McCoy, H-E-B, Mattress Mack, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
WHO: Countless Texans and folks from around the globe who stepped up—even as basic public services (and public servants) failed—to take care of one another in a crisis. WHAT: A seemingly endless stream of fund-raising, personal...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 19, 2021 | All, Deregulation, ERCOT, News, Politics, Texas blackouts, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
Disasters that you predict don’t come along every day,” Ed Hirs told me late this week. “I guess I have to count my blessings. Let’s go further and say it’s cold comfort.” After years of toiling in semi-obscurity as an energy...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 19, 2021 | All, blackouts, El Paso Electric, Energy, News, Winter Storm 2021 | 0 |
While shoppers in other Texas big cities faced long lines and empty shelves at grocery stores, Robert Gomez breezed right into his local Albertsons in El Paso on Wednesday. The store was fully stocked, and more importantly, had...
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