Cattle in the snow in Dripping Springs.Snow and ice cover the roads in Austin.About eight inches of snow fell in Buda.Almost 8 inches of snow measured in the Canyon Creek neighborhood in northwest Austin.Snow covers the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.A frozen meter in the Circle C neighborhood in southwest Austin.Patio furniture sits atop a frozen pool near Oak Hill in Austin.A frozen fountain in the Barton Creek neighborhood in Austin.Ice accumulation in Gillespie County, near Enchanted Rock.The grounds of the Blanco County Courthouse covered in snow.The Blanco River frozen over in Wimberley.Snow covers the ground in downtown Austin.
Snow and ice cover a cactus in Click, Llano County.Ice weighs down cedar trees in Georgetown.Most of the deaths were from hypothermia, but deaths were also caused by car crashes, carbon monoxide poisoning, falls, fires and chronic illnesses made worse by the cold. In a meeting the week after the storm, ERCOT officials said the system was four minutes away from total collapse, which could have meant no power for weeks.Īccording to official state data, 246 Texans lost their lives between Feb. According to, more than 4.4 million electric customers were without power the night of Feb. Initially meant to be rotating outages, millions of Texans remained without power for hours, and even days. Unprecedented demand led ERCOT, the operator of the state’s power grid, to mandate power outages across the state. Austin’s Camp Mabry - the official weather reporting site for the city - remained at or below freezing for 144 hours, breaking the previous record set in 1983. The NWS office in Austin/San Antonio also issued its first Wind Chill Warning ever. 14, the entire state of Texas was under a Winter Storm Warning. The National Weather Service calls it “an unprecedented and historical eight-day period of winter weather.” Texas endured not one, not two, but five separate storm systems. February’s winter storm was historic and record-breaking in so many ways. We might as well start with the elephant in the room. The entire state of Texas was under a Winter Storm Warning on Feb.
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