http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a MSN - AP World Copyright © 2010-2018 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tue, 13 May 2025 04:25:01 +0000 http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a/3b1dc2bc65474d2ba0c075dfd4074f9f 3b1dc2bc65474d2ba0c075dfd4074f9f Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:12:37 +0000 SHOTLIST:RESTRICTION SUMMARY: NO RE-SALE, RE-USE OR ARCHIVE; MANDATORY CREDIT KSAT; NO ACCESS SAN ANTONIO MARKET; NO NNS; NO USE BY US BROADCAST NETWORKSKSAT - NO RE-SALE, RE-USE OR ARCHIVE; MANDATORY CREDIT KSAT; NO ACCESS SAN ANTONIO MARKET; NO NNS; NO USE BY US BROADCAST NETWORKSSpring Branch, Texas - 2 February 20231. Cellphone on table in dark roomUPSOUND (English) Voice from cellphone:"We do not have an estimated time for restoration. We encourage you to make accomidations or to safely seek shelter elsewhere."HEADLINE: Frustrated Texans endure storm with no power, heat2. Various fireplace++SOUNDBITE #3 PART COVERED++3. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Dahlke, Lost power in winter storm:"Our heat source is our fire place. And the elements have been cold. And we've been in bed, snuggled up under like 5 or 6 blankets."4. SOUNDBITE (English) Monroe Frerich, Lost power in winter storm:"It was 29 (degrees farenheit) last night."(Reporter: "Inside the home.")Frerich: "Inside the home."5. Electric heater on floor++SHOT #6 PART COVERED++6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Frerich, Lost power in winter storm:"Might run the heater a little more than we did last night. I think it's cold. But we have covers."7. Kitchen counter++SOUNDBITE #8 PART COVERED++8. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Dahlke, Lost power in winter storm:"Stuff out of the toaster. Maybe make a tuna fish sandwich or some chips."9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Frerich, Lost power in winter storm:"It's hard to find something to eat when you don't have anything to cook with."++SOUNDBITE #10 PART COVERED++10. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Dahlke, Lost power in winter storm:"Just think that our utility companies need to do a better job making sure our infrastructure is maintained properly."11. Various candles12. Tree with broken branches++SOUNDBITE #13 PART COVERED++13. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Frerich, Lost power in winter storm:"Hear the tree limbs breaking. And you didn't know, was it on the roof, was it just in the yard? But it's very nerve-wracking."14. Broken branch, snow on groundSTORYLINE:Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in homes without power for a second day Thursday, most of them around booming Austin, and fading hopes of a quick fix stirred grim memories of a deadly 2021 blackout after an icy winter storm across the southern U.S. The freeze has been blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths on slick roads this week in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. And even as Texas finally began thawing Thursday, a new Artic front from Canada was headed toward the northern U.S. and threatening New England with potentially the coldest weather in decades. Wind chills could dive below minus 50 (minus 45 Celsius). In Austin, city officials compared the damage from fallen trees and iced-over power lines to tornadoes as they came under mounting criticism for slow repairs and shifting timelines to restore power. “We had hoped to make more progress today,“ said Jackie Sargent, general manager of Austin Energy. ”And that simply has not happened."Across Texas more than 280,000 customers were without power Thursday night, down from 430,000 earlier in the day, according to PowerOutage.us. The failures were most widespread in Austin, where impatience was rising among 150,000 customers nearly two days after the electricity first went out, which for many also means no heat. Power failures have affected about 30% of customers in the city of nearly a million at any given time since Wednesday.Residents of Spring Branch, north of San Antonio, say they are also struggling in the cold weather with no heat or electricity.Monroe Frerich told KSAT-TV that on Wednesday night in his house it was 29 degrees farenheit. (-1.6 celcius). Pauline Frerich said another big worry is food going bad while the refrigerator isn't working."Everything's so expensive. I'd say 200 to 300 dollars for sure. Just from the refrigerator," she said.For many Texans, it was the second time in three years that a February freeze - temperatures were in the 30s Thursday with wind chills below freezing - caused prolonged outages and uncertainty over when the lights would come back on.Unlike the 2021 blackouts in Texas, when hundreds of people died after the state’s grid was pushed to the brink of total failure because of a lack of generation, the outages in Austin this time were largely the result of frozen equipment and ice-burdened trees and limbs falling on power lines. School systems in the Dallas and Austin area, plus many in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee, closed Thursday as snow, sleet and freezing rain continued to push through. In Austin, schools will not open until next week at the earliest. Hundreds more flights were canceled again in Texas, although not as many as in previous days. Airport crews battled ice to keep runways open. By Thursday morning, airlines had canceled more than 500 flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport - more than a quarter of all flights scheduled for the day. Still, that was down from about 1,300 cancellations on Wednesday and more than 1,000 on Tuesday, according to FlightAware.com.Dozens more flights were canceled at Dallas Love Field and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.===========================================================Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Frustrated Texans endure storm with no power, heat