Texas Weather: President Biden Declares a Major Disaster

Texas was down with a major disaster, but power has been restored across Texas, and temperatures are on the verge of rising. Presently, about 14 million people are experiencing difficulty accessing clean water.

President Joe Biden announced that he would visit Texas as long as his presence is not a burden on relief efforts.

In the US, 60 residents have been reported dead as a result of cold weather.

Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas have been subjected to a state of emergency by the authorities.

The White House publicized a statement released by Mr. Biden that said: “He already ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms.”

“Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster,” the statement said.

President Joe Biden has contacted the mayors of some of Texas’ biggest cities like Dallas, Austin, and Houston to guarantee their access to government resources, as reported by an official.

Some southern states that were hit by ice storms and snows this week have also revealed water service outages.

Jackson, one of the cities in Mississippi, home to about 150,000 and the largest county in Tennessee that includes the city of Memphis, which harbours over 651,000 residents, had reported that winter weather also cut off their water.

Jackson’s city officials explained that water treatment plants are now functioning again, but that doesn’t stop 43,000 households from having any or low water pressure.

In the US south, a region that isn’t familiar with such cold temperatures, residents whose pipe has frozen now boil snow to make water.

What is the situation in Texas?

The south-western state’s energy grid was dominated by the sudden rise in heat as temperatures drop to 30-year lows, hitting 0F (-18C) during the early days of last week.

Almost 80,000 homes were still out of power as of the early hours of Saturday. Earlier last week, due to freezing temperatures, over 3.3 million homes and businesses were without electricity.

Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the power company, announces that consumers were relieved of conserving energy.

Nearly half of Texas population have encountered numerous water services disturbance as hundreds of water systems have been damaged by the cold weather (freeze).