PRINCESS EUGENIE AND HUSBAND PICK A NAME FOR BABY SON
This after ‘polar plunge’ burst pipes, left millions shivering without power
London, Feb. 20: Britain's Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank have named their baby boy August
Philip Hawke Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.
The baby — a ninth greatgrandchild for Queen Elizabeth
II — was born Feb. 9 at London's Portland Hospital. The baby is her first child and is 11th in line to the British throne.
Frustrated Texans queued for hours for safe drinking water Friday, after an unprecedented and deadly “polar plunge” burst pipes and left millions in the US state shivering without power or clean water for days. The extreme winter weather system wreaked havoc across much of the southern and central United States this week, reportedly killing at least 40 people and igniting anger in Texas as authorities scrambled to turn the lights back on.
Houston resident Percy McGee rated his frustration level at “number 10” as he waited his turn at the city's Delmar Stadium, now a mass bottled water distribution site.
“I've been up since five o'clock. And I've been on the road since six. And I know it's 11:30 but I'm gonna sit here until, I mean, I have no choice. All the stores in my area are out of water,” he said.
“I'm very frustrated. I'm a diabetic. I have a 94-yearold senior as a diabetic. We haven't had no medicine. Nothing... So I'm really frustrated mentally. But I'm keeping it together,” he said.
Erica Granado, another Houston resident, said she had rushed to the site after seeing it on the news.
“I gotta be early because I knew everybody — yeah, everybody wants water and so it's a difficult time for everybody,” she said, adding: “Thank God I had gas in my car.” On Friday the weather system was slowly moving northeast, where hardy New Englanders — far more used to
scouring winter storms than residents of the Lone Star state — were battening down.
But even as the temperature rose above freezing in Texas — and the National Weather Service forecast weekend weather in the
50s Fahrenheit (10-15 Celsius) — state governor Greg Abbott said some
165,000 people were still without power Friday.
Water pressure problems meant nearly seven million Texans were being advised to boil their water before drinking it or using for cooking, said Toby Baker, who heads the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.