Capital Highlights
by ED STERLING
Wind, snow, sleet, ice, record-low temperatures, road closures and power blackouts made the second half of last week unusual for most of Texas, even for winter.
Power grid manager ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ordered providers serving the bulk of the state to implement rolling outages to compensate for electricity shortages. Gov. Rick Perry was out of state while the Arctic cold front raged, but he had this to say about the outages:
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