The Texas Electric Reliability Council is expecting its existing power usage record—set Tuesday—to be broken Wednesday as high temperatures challenge the grid.
at a commissioners court meeting Monday that nine people had died in the border county as a result of the heat.to the National Weather Service.people to cut back on power usage if they can.
“We don’t see this in our county—Laredo knows heat, Webb County knows heat and I think our county was caught a little off guard,” Stern told the commissioners. “I think many of us thought, ‘Oh, it’s just going to be another couple hot weeks in our county,’ but with the heat indexes rising … extra precautions need to be taken.”
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