Austin Power Outage: A Crisis That Could Have Been Avoided?

Webprecipitated by an unusual winter storm, the 2021 texas power crisis lasted february 10 to 27 leaving millions of customers without power. Power outages can be deadly, and medically vulnerable, socioeconomically vulnerable, and marginalized groups may be. Webthe february 2021 texas winter power outage has led to hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in economic losses, largely due to the generation failure. Weba damaging ice storm swept across central texas beginning jan. 30, plunging much of austin into darkness for days after causing trees and power lines to fall.