33 hours. No power. No heat. Two kids.
Kevin Morazan warms his hands after lighting his charcoal grill to cook after losing power in the Greenspoint area due to rolling blackouts following an overnight snowfall Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 in Houston. Temperatures plunged into the teens Monday with light snow and freezing rain. The stove in his apartment is electric.Snow was in the forecast for Houston, and my kids couldn’t contain their excitement.
As the first snowflakes fell on Valentine’s Day 2021, my 4- and 1-year-old girls rushed outside, marveling at the rare sight. My wife and I envisioned spending the following days making snow angels, building snowmen and sledding down the neighborhood hill, reliving our childhood memories with our little ones.After multiple power plants failed during the February freeze, Texas’ grid manager ERCOT imposed rolling blackouts across the state, plunging millions of Texans into frigid darkness.
At least we had a gas stove, we told ourselves. A warm meal does wonders for the soul during challenging times. As these tragic stories emerged, the journalists of the Houston Chronicle worked tirelessly to keep our fellow Houstonians informed of power outages, water boil notices and the locations of warming stations. The newspaper kept printing and the website kept updating throughout the storm, despite many of us without power and running water. And in the aftermath, we dissected how and why the grid collapsed, and interviewed experts who offered solutions.
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