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1:35Now PlayingMillions of households in Texas could be without electricity until Tuesday as the state’s power grid buckles during an Arctic freeze that’s sent temperatures plummeting across much of the U.S., triggered a growing energy crisis.
Large swaths of Dallas, Houston and other cities are being plunged into darkness as surging demand for heat and extreme cold pushes generators to the brink. The outages began as controlled, rolling power cuts but have cascaded into prolonged blackouts in some areas.
“They began as rotating outages but have become longer,” Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said during a briefing Tuesday.
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