Rikta Patel and Connor Crawford along their fireplace and snow outside. Rickcharen  Millions of Texas still have no electricity, and there is still no electricity after the main part of the country's grid.
 Winter storm sent to Texas at a long weekend, and local officials have told some residents to be preparing for no power to Wednesday, may be longer.
 In the United States this week, at least 20 people died in an event related to the weather. In Texas, the death personnel consulted two officials of two officials believe that after using their cars, frozen, a woman and a child who was poisoned by carbon monoxide, as well as a grandmother and three arrested children.
 and did not end the power failure, Texas tried to keep warm through any necessary way.
For a couple in Austin, electricity has emerged for 61 hours.  
Rikta Patel, 29 and her boyfriend, Canto Laud, 26 years old, 2 pm on Monday, keep warm with a fireplace. On Tuesday, they run low on wood.  "We have moved the mattress from the bedroom to the living room, and built a fortress by the fireplace," Patell told inside by email.
Millions of Texas lost power in the cold  As of Wednesday, nearly 3 million people did not treasure according to PowerOutage.us, in Texas, from Monday and Tuesday more than 4 million.
 President Joe Biden announced an emergency, giving Texas asylum and mass care, and departmental energy released its own emergency order Monday, allowing Texas power plant to produce more Electricity helps to lose power.
 
Pacers in an icy road at East Austin, Texas Monday. Montinique Monroe / Getty Images  
But the storm exposes the issue of Texas's grid, revealing the more cold weather in the state.  The grid suffers from several ways in several ways means that the demand for prisoners is higher as Germany.Karsas uses electric furnace to warm their homes, and the power plant simply fails, because natural gas resources begin to freeze, the national power generator is not prepared for winter.
 Wind turbines and solar panels, which creates energy share in Texas seems to fail.
 Texas's Electric Reliability Commission oversees most of Texas, indicated on Wednesday, which may continue to have an unknown amount.
Patrie said that she and Crawford received an email from Crawford in Crawford on Saturday, he and Crawford began to prepare for Austin's email in Austin University email. The college will close at least on Thursday.  Before they lost their power, the couple received all external batteries to keep the mobile phone and computer charging, filling each kettle and vessel, they used water, opened the cabinet to freeze the pipe, boiled some eggs, and filled with gas Their car.
The internal temperature is still dripping  Crawford said the temperature in their apartment is nearly 43 degrees near 56 Faith on Monday, but on Tuesday to 43 degrees.
Crawford and Parr in neighbors and said their apartment theater invites fragile residents to keep warm in their club's gas fireplace? The only gas pipeline in the building.  
Crawford and Patel move the bed to the living room when using the battery powered light. Rikta Pa.tel  
"I think they will only turn off the power, but it will eventually turn it back. Unfortunately, if power is restarted, I am wrong. Connor and my dream for us Make a plan. My list is a hot shower. " Crawford compared the environment in their home with the" very cold camping journey ".
"In theory, as long as a food and water and enough blanket, he said, you can ride a lot of temperature," he said. "Even if we don't have wood, the apartment is 30 degrees, I think we can continue, as long as we duration for indefinite food and water. We will not feel comfortable, but we will definitely survive."  
 Crawford's familyTheir barbecue melted ice. Rikta Patel
 Their power is also coming, but Par said they have a gas grill to cook food.
 Other places in Texas, the northern Dallas, a requirement to be determined as the essence of privacy, have she been identified by rolling power outage? Loss of power control, to maintain the entire system? Since Monday.
 She said she lost two to six hours of increment.
 
"We didn't prepare, because we didn't know that Texas can get this bad," she said this storm. "I am special, I am not from here. It has become bad in North Carolina, but I have never thought of it will be like Texas.  and lighting candles keep warm.
Others Tell Texas Forum, they have burn their children's toys, driving a friend's house, and seeking a refuge in shelter.  The forum worried about how to affect its medical equipment, including entering oxygen The function of the can and the dialysis machine.
Texas governor called for the main operator resigned between officials and Texas residents  I always point to each direction when I blame Dire Situati.
Greg Abbott criticized ERCOT to the treatment of cold explosion, and calling for the leaders of the organization resigned from its "failed."  
The road covered with snow and rain in the spring of Texas spring. David J. Phillip / AP  
"Our current priority, no matter the future holdings, we are in order to recover electricity. Obviously this is a very difficult thing for Texas. Dan Linfen, a senior Dantandon Institute of Business, told reporters, speaking on Wednesday. "I think it can be done once we recover power, we can complete. However, preliminary decision is a wise decision that the operation is here. If we wait for the demand, we can drift to a power outage? Not only a power outage? It may take several months or longer to reconstruct it. "
Crawford was born in Austin andHolding Insider, he expects scrolling power outages during the storm, but does not predict this extensive power loss of the entire state.  
Crawford called "horror", millions of people in Texas have no calorie days in the country.  
He said that he understood why the grid has collapsed, especially when it is impossible to browse the power grid during the week in the week, but not criticizing the national leadership lack of organization.  "Failed to communicate with those who have no power, why there is no power and what they are doing," Crawford said. "I have collected more information about Austin weaken and twitter on storms, electric updates and infrastructure updates, which is the abyss of our country, electricity company and Eleh,"