Texas Deploys National Guard as Outages Leave Millions Freezing in Darkness

Texas Deploys National Guard as Outages Leave Millions Freezing in Darkness
Snow is shown along Main Street near the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Yffy Yassifor/Star-Telegram via AP
Jack Phillips
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that he would deploy the National Guard to respond to the severe weather in much of the state, which overloaded the electric grid and caused widespread power outages.

Texas National Guard troops will be deployed across the state to conduct welfare checks and move residents to warming centers, Abbott said. Across the state, he added that generators were not able to increase production due to being frozen.

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