This article is from WeChat official account:International Financial News (ID: gjjrb777) ,Reporter: Zhou Zimo, editor: Cheng Hui, responsible editor: Bi Dandan, head picture From: Visual China

In the past two weeks, extreme cold waves hit the southern states of Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Missouri, causing a large number of casualties.

According to the National Weather Service, the cold wave originated from the transit of the “Arctic Cold Front” on the US-Canada border, which brought a lot of rain and snow and caused a sharp drop in temperature. In the past, such cold fronts would stay in the Arctic region under the influence of a series of low-pressure cyclones. But this time, the cold front moved from Canada to the United States and spread to the central and southern states.

Among them, Texas was the worst hit, which resulted in large-scale water and power outages. During peak periods, more than 4 million people were without electricity. According to the Texas Environmental Quality Commission (TCEQ) statement, as of the evening of February 23, there are still 3.4 million people in Texas Water supply problems, the number reached 7.9 million the day before.

According to the news from Chinanews.com, winter storms that lasted for many days caused at least 76 deaths in many parts of the United States, and about half of them occurred in the worst-hit Texas.

And this number is still rising. According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of casualties caused by this disaster may take months to determine.

On February 24, local time, all five board members of the grid operator Texas Electric Reliability Commission (ERCOT) resigned.

Many dead and injured

This is the harshest in Texas history