

The family has experienced shorter outages - a few hours at a time - since then.

Power came back on late Tuesday evening, she said, “and we tried to warm up the house as much as we could” before it went back off again. “We were out of power for about 30 hours at first,” said Debbie Arriaga, 44, an executive assistant at a law firm in Houston who cares for her 85-year-old mother and teenage twins. Millions of Texans faced the brutal cold without power or heat for long stretches at a time. Sources:, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine | Note: The map shows the difference between the current day’s forecasted temperature and the 1979-2000 mean for the same day of the year.
