The Deep Dive with Everett Cook
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Everett Cook was 2 years old when he first visited the ocean. His mother has a photo of him dipping his toe in the water.
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What a difference a week makes—temperature tailspin eases
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Two hundred seventy-five hours—11 1/2 days—from Monday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 am until Friday, Feb. 19 at 1:15 pm, the mercury stubbornly refused to budge above the freezing mark. Arctic air blanketed a large part of North America as two storms interacted, producing record-shattering low temperatures, wind-chill readings not seen in a generation, and snow.
Southwest Power Pool, Xcel Energy, and regional co-ops resume normal operations
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AMARILLO—The Southwest Power Pool moved to normal operating status at 10 pm Saturday, signaling the end of a power emergency across its 14-state footprint that includes Xcel Energy’s Texas and New Mexico service area along with regional electric cooperatives and municipal utilities.
Canadian Apartments to be offered at March 2 Sheriff’s Sale
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Canadian Apartments to be offered at March 2 Sheriff’s Sale The Canadian Apartment complex, located at 203 Birch St., will be offered for sale on the steps of Hemphill County Courthouse next Tuesday, March 2. A default judgment was issued against the property following the failure of the owners, Galen and Barbara Lusk, to pay all taxes, penalties, and interest owed against the property.
Xcel customers are protected from extreme billing spikes
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AMARILLO—Winter Storm Uri made electricity more expensive to produce because of shortages in natural gas used to fuel area power plants, but Xcel Energy customers in Texas and New Mexico will be protected from the extreme billing spikes that are making news in other parts of Texas.
Hemphill County COVID test positives remain low as hospital vaccine distribution continues
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New positive tests for the coronavirus continued to dramatically decline in Hemphill County this week. On Wednesday, the Hemphill County Hospital District lab announced zero new positive cases of COVID-19 among in-county residents over the last seven days. Only one case remains active among Hemphill county residents, according to this latest report.
CISD Superintendent discusses winter weather, career and technology programs, in Wednesday board meeting
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Canadian ISD board members met last Wednesday in the midst of an epic winter storm that closed school here for two days and caused a power grid blackout that shut down some parts of Texas for most of the week.
State Capital Highlights
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Millions of Texans dealing with water supply issues Warmer temperatures over the weekend and continuing this week melted most of the snow from the state’s roadways and roofs. But Texans are still dealing with broken pipes that flooded homes and businesses, damaged municipal water systems, and continued power outages in scattered areas, mainly in East and Central Texas.At the height of the power crisis, more than 4 million Texans were without electrical service—a number that shrank to less than 32,000 as of Sunday, according to the PowerOutage.
Dangerous back-to-back winter storm systems threaten lives, livestock, property
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Cold air poured south into the U.S. this week, as arctic high pressure stretched from Canada all the way across the border into northern Mexico. Bone-chilling, pipe-bursting temperatures—averaging 40-50 degrees below normal for a huge swath of the country—brought widespread misery on a scale rarely before seen in Texas, where all 254 counties were placed under a disaster declaration last Friday as the state’s residents braced for the winter storm.
State Capital Highlights
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Snow, ice, single-digit temps blanket the state Texans from Lubbock to Longview shivered under singledigit temperatures as their week began, with snow and ice creating dangerous road conditions throughout the state. Gov.
