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Some jeans face high electric bills
Some jeans will handle surprisingly high electric bills.
Most residents sign one of two types of contracts with energy suppliers: a higher fixed or variable rate. With variable, customers have the opportunity and can pay low rates when demand is low and higher rates when demand increases.
Houston resident Meghan O’Neill paid more than $ 2,000 in two days. His February bill now exceeds $ 3,000.
“It’s like, okay, I feed my family or I get hot, what do I do?” O’Neill said.
Joshua Rhodes, an energy expert at the University of Texas, said those with flat rates could also pay more in the future.
“This effect will occur later because, as you know, utilities and the like assess, you know, how much money they need to get back,” Rhodes said. “… Finally, the customer always pays, you know, at the end of it.”
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San Antonio will open water distribution stations
The San Antonio water system announced Thursday that it will begin supplying water to seven pump sites in the city. Residents will receive up to five gallons per person and are advised to boil the water they receive as a precautionary measure.
The City of San Antonio and the San Antonio Food Bank will also provide bottled water distribution to city sites.
San Antonio has experienced water outages due to the winter weather emergency and the San Antonio water system released a boiling water advice this Wednesday for customers who still have access to water.
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Winter storms disrupt the COVID vaccine effort as variants feed new fears
As Americans yearn for their pre-pandemic lives, the distribution of coronavirus vaccines is lagging behind as winter storms plague the United States. Jonathan Vigliotti reports on CBS Evening News.
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34 deaths linked to the winter storm
As of Friday, 34 deaths were related to the severe winter weather in seven states.
Most of the deaths were recorded in Texas, with 20 residents dying from storm-related incidents. Here they occurred: Houston (7), Taylor County (6), Sugarland (4), Galveston County (2) and San Antonio (1).
Earlier this week, a grandmother and three children died in a fire in Sugarland. City officials said the neighborhood had been without electricity. The cause of the fire is being investigated.