New York. Dangerous icy storms in America’s Texas and Mexico have made the situation grim. So far 21 people have died in the midst of continuous snowfall. More than 44 million of the population are closed to homes without electricity in Texas alone. Electricity and water supply is badly affected in more than 100 counties in Texas. People have been asked to boil water and drink. Here more than 200 roads have been blocked. Vaccination centers have also been closed in these areas. National guards have been deployed to save the lives of the elderly. Air services have been discontinued in Texas and Houston.
More than 10 million population of America is chilling in the snow. In Texas, frequent icy storms have severely affected electricity production. The state power grid continues to malfunction. Gas and oil pipelines have been frozen here. More than eight thousand vaccine doses deteriorated due to lack of electricity supply.
So far, 21 people have died in Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Missouri. A family was found dead in the garage while trying to get heat in the car. In another incident, the house caught fire while trying to heat it. The weather remains continuously bad. The same situation persists in Mississippi and Minnesota. The Meteorological Department has again warned of storms in Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi.
President Joe Biden issued a statement saying that he will fully help the states passing through the trouble. The entire area from Ohio to Rio Grande has been covered in snow sheets due to the icy storm. Temperatures in Lincoln and Nebraska have gone below minus 31 degrees.
The situation is not good in Texas as well as Mexico. Here in northern Mexico, a single day blackout in factories caused a loss of $ 2.7 billion (about 19 thousand crores). The storm has caused the most damage to industry. The index of producing factories has said that 2600 industries are affected by the storm.
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