A Prepper’s Guide to Surviving the Winter Storm
During Texas’s 2021 “snowpocalypse,” Paul Martin fared better than most. In his yard stood a 31,000-gallon rainwater tank, shaped like a twelve-foot-tall silo, and a generator capable of powerin...
Behind the Fight for the Throne at the Texas Renaissance Festival
The Texas Renaissance Festival, in the woods northwest of Houston, is the nation’s largest attraction of its kind by attendance, drawing half a million visitors each year to a bygone fantasy land of...
Can the Texas Grid Withstand This Winter Storm?
Trust in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the operator of the state’s predominant power grid, was shaken greatly by the devastating February 2021 winter storm that resulted in widespread, ...
A “Hype-Free” Meteorologist on Texas’s Upcoming Winter Storm
On Friday, as Texans head to sleep, a major winter storm will make its unwelcome arrival. By morning, roads across much of the state will be icy, and as much as five inches of snow and ice could accum...
The Bad News Keeps Coming For Downtown Dallas
Visit downtown Dallas during the weekday lunch rush, and its reputation for being a moribund neighborhood can seem particularly unfair. On a recent Tuesday, beneath a giant video screen affixed to a s...