The Daily Populous

NEW YORK — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised over $1 million for relief efforts in Texas in about four hours, the congresswoman announced Thursday.

Our first effort is a partnership w/ 5 Texas orgs getting on-the-ground relief to Texans ASAP.

Our Texas relief mobilization has already raised $325k for food, housing, elder care & direct relief straight to vulnerable Texans. »

The help line, of course, was not manned, as we’ve discussed.

He sent several panicked emails — three, to be precise — did not receive a response. »

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday.

At the same time, demand was increasing as consumers and businesses turned up the heat and stayed inside to avoid the weather.

“It was seconds and minutes [from possible failure] given the amount of generation that was coming off the system.”. »

Musk tweeted that Texas’ power grid manager, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), is not earning the “R” in the acronym.

Musk moved to Texas from California in December and is building a new Tesla factory in Austin.

“So my wife my dog and my newborn daughter slept in the garage in our Model3 all nice and cozy. »