The Texas council that manages the majority of the state's electricity has initiated rotating power outages as the state experiences a winter storm dropping snow, ice and temperaturesDALLAS -- A winter storm dropping snow and ice also sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. The council manages the flow of electric power in the state. “Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power,” the council said. Nearly 2.6 million customers in Texas were in the dark as of 8:20 a.m. CST, according to poweroutage.us, a utility tracking site. Up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow was expected across parts of the southern Plains into Monday, said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.

Source: ABC News February 15, 2021 09:00 UTC