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The Big Chill A very fine Wednesday culinary journey February 17, 2021 of Caribbean T: 582-7800 and Peruvian www.arubatoday.com fusion cuisine facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday Page 10 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper Millions endure record cold without power; at least 15 dead By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more THE BIG lives Tuesday, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a sea- side town in North Carolina and four family members CHILL who perished in a Houston- area house fire while using a fireplace to stay warm. The storm that over- whelmed power grids and immobilized the Southern Plains carried heavy snow and freezing rain into New England and the Deep South and left behind painfully low temperatures. Wind-chill warnings ex- tended from Canada into Mexico. In all, at least 15 deaths were reported. Other causes included car crash- A woman wrapped in a blanket crosses the street near downtown Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Temperatures dropped into the es and carbon monoxide single digits as snow shut down air travel and grocery stores. poisoning. The weather Associated Press also threatened to affect the nation's COVID-19 vac- County had little notice of ice was “very surprised how Director Ed Conrow said. normally balmy Gulf of cination effort. President the dangerous weather, rapidly this storm intensified In Chicago, a foot and a Mexico, cross-country skiier Joe Biden's administration and a tornado warning ... and at the time of night half (46 centimeters) of Sam Fagg hit fresh powder said delays in vaccine ship- was not issued until the when most people are at new snow forced public on the beach in Galveston, ments and deliveries were storm was already on the home and in bed, it cre- schools to cancel in-person Texas. likely. ground. ates a very dangerous situ- classes for Tuesday. North Carolina's Brunswick The National Weather Serv- ation,” Emergency Services Hours earlier, along the Continued on next page A2 WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2021 UP FRONT county jail because those At least 13 children were places had large groups treated for carbon mon- of people available where oxide poisoning at Cook they would not have to Children's Medical Center drive and with appropri- in Fort Worth, the hospital ate medical personnel on said in a social media post, hand. which warned that fami- "It feels amazing. I'm very lies were "going to extreme grateful," said Harry Golen, measures to warm their a college sophomore who homes" with propane or waited for nearly four hours diesel-burning engines and with his friends, much of it generators as well as gas in the cold. He was among ovens and stovetops. One the last people to get the parent died of the toxic shots, which otherwise fumes, pediatrician Phillip would not have reached Scott told Fort Worth televi- students until March or sion station KTVT. April. Other Texas deaths includ- Texas officials said more ed a woman and a girl who than 400,000 additional died from suspected car- doses due now will not ar- bon monoxide poisoning in A property owner videos the damage to a home from severe weather in Brunswick County, N.C. rive until at least Wednes- Houston at a home without near the town of Sunset Beach, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. day because of the storm. electricity from a car left Associated Press The weather service's office running in an attached ga- in Wilmington, North Caro- rage, and two men found Continued from Front warming centers had to be Nebraska's blackouts lina, dispatched a team to along Houston-area road- The worst U.S. power outag- shut down because they came amid some of the confirm that a tornado did ways who likely died in sub- es were in Texas, affecting lost power. coldest weather on record: indeed touch down and freezing temperatures, law more than 4 million homes Utilities from Minnesota to In Omaha, the tempera- to survey damage in Bruns- enforcement officials said. and businesses. More than Texas implemented rolling ture bottomed out at 23 wick County, said Mark Wil- In west Tennessee, a 250,000 people also lost blackouts to ease the bur- degrees below zero over- lis, the office's meteorolo- 10-year-old boy died after power across parts of Ap- den on power grids strain- night (minus 30 Celsius), the gist in charge. falling into an ice-covered palachia, and another ing to meet the extreme coldest in 25 years. Three people died and pond on Sunday during a quarter million were with- demand for heat and elec- The Southwest Power Pool, 10 were injured when the winter storm, fire officials out electricity following an tricity. a group of utilities covering apparent tornado tore said. ice storm in northwest Or- Blackouts of more than an 14 states, said the black- through a golf course com- Several cities had record egon, according to pow- hour began around dawn outs were "a last resort to munity and another rural lows: In Minnesota, the Hib- eroutage.us, which tracks Tuesday for Oklahoma City preserve the reliability of area just before midnight bing/Chisholm weather utility outage reports. Four and more than a dozen the electric system as a Monday, destroying doz- station registered minus 38 million people lost power in other communities, stop- whole." ens of homes. degrees Fahrenheit (mi- Mexico. ping electric-powered The outages forced a Sharon Benson, 63, said her nus 39 degrees Celsius). Texas officials requested 60 space heaters, furnaces Texas county to scramble roof was damaged and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, generators from the Fed- and lights just as tempera- to administer more than her garage door blown off. dropped to minus 26 Fahr- eral Emergency Manage- tures hovered around mi- 8,000 doses of Moderna's Windows were shattered enheit (minus 26 degrees ment Agency and planned nus 8 degrees. coronavirus vaccine after and nearby trees were up- Celsius). to prioritize hospitals and Oklahoma Gas & Electric a public health facility lost rooted. Air travel was also affect- nursing homes. The state rescinded plans for further power early Monday and "The sky lit up and there was ed. At midday, more than opened 35 shelters to more blackouts but urged us- its backup generator also a lot of pop-pop-popping" 2,700 U.S. flights had been than 1,000 occupants, the ers to set thermostats at 68 failed, said Rafael Lemai- and thunder, she said. canceled, led by more agency said. degrees Fahrenheit (20 de- tre, a spokesman for Harris Authorities in multiple states than 800 at Dallas Fort More than 500 people grees Celsius), avoid using County Judge Lina Hidalgo. reported deaths in crashes Worth International Airport sought comfort at one major electric appliances County officials distributed on icy roads , including two and more than 700 at Bush shelter in Houston. Mayor and turn off lights or appli- the doses at three hospi- people whose vehicle slid Intercontinental in Houston. Sylvester Turner said other ances they are not using. tals, Rice University and the off a road and overturned Authorities pleaded with in a waterway in Kentucky residents to stay home on Sunday, state police Tuesday. About 100 school LIKE US ON said. In Texas, three young systems closed, delayed children and their grand- opening or switched to re- mother died in the Hous- mote classes in Alabama, ton-area fire, which likely where forecasters said con- began while they were ditions might not improve using a fireplace to keep until temperatures rise warm during a power out- above freezing Wednes- Facebook.com/arubatoday/ age, a fire official said. day afternoon.q A3 U.S. NEWS WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2021 Dem's lawsuit accuses Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot WASHINGTON (AP) — The represents Thompson, said House Homeland Security in an interview. chairman accused Don- "In this respect, because of ald Trump in a federal law- his conduct, he is just like suit Tuesday of inciting the any other private citizen," deadly insurrection at the he said. U.S. Capitol and conspiring Sellers, a lawyer with the with his lawyer and extrem- Washington law firm of Co- ist groups to try to prevent hen Milstein, filed the case Congress from certifying along with the NAACP. the results of the presiden- Several other members of tial election he lost to Joe Congress are expected to Biden. join. The lawsuit from Democrat- White House press secre- ic Rep. Bennie Thompson is tary Jen Psaki told report- part of an expected wave ers Tuesday that Biden sup- of litigation over the Jan. 6 ports the rights of individu- riot and is believed to be als "to take steps through the first filed by a mem- the judicial process," but ber of Congress. It seeks she declined to comment unspecified punitive and further. compensatory damages. It Though the impeachment also names as defendants case focused squarely on Rudy Giuliani, Trump's per- accusations of incitement, sonal lawyer, and the Proud the lawsuit more broadly In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks dur- Boys and the Oath Keep- ing a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on 'worldwide threats to the homeland', accuses Trump of conspir- ers, extremist organizations on Capitol Hill Washington. ing to disrupt the consti- that have had members Associated Press tutional activities of Con- charged by the Justice De- gress — namely, the certi- partment with taking part law called the Ku Klux Klan The suit traces the drawn- campaign to interfere with fication of election results in the siege.
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