The Houston Health Department and its agency partners are announcing the schedule for sites offering free COVID-19 tests the week of February 22, 2021. Nineteen FREE+FAST+SAFE testing sites across Houston are on the schedule for the week. Houston Health [...]
Effective immediately, the City of Houston has lifted the boil water notice that has been in place since Wednesday, February 17, 2021. Customers no longer need to boil water used for drinking, cooking and making ice. [...]
FEMA Announces Emergency Aid for Texas FEMA announced federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of Texas to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in areas affected by a severe winter [...]
02.19.21 Update from AFL-CIO: Individuals in need of plumbers and trade professionals can access the following database: Plumbers Local 68 has a clearing house website called Plumbers 911 that [...]
Vol. 2, Issue 7 - 02.18.21 Press Conference: Mayor Turner Provides Updates on Outages and Boil Water Notice - 02.18.21 (starts at the 14m10s mark) Please view Mayor Turner's press conference from this morning for many [...]
The Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (HCOHSEM) is continuing to monitor and coordinate recovery efforts across the area. The National Weather Service has issued a Hard Freeze Warning for Harris County [...]
Updated Boil Water Notice and Tips A boil water notice has been issued for the City of Houston’s Main Water System (TX1010013). The water pressure dropped below the Texas Commission on [...]
02.17.21 The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) operates the electric grid and manages the deregulated market for 75 percent of the state. They had directed energy providers, such as CenterPoint, to restore power to 600K households [...]
Life-threatening cold weather conditions continue in Harris County. Temperatures are unlikely to move above freezing for more than a few hours until Wednesday. Freezing rain and ice will also return overnight in much of the [...]
