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More than 200,000 people in Texas live in areas where water systems were completely non-operational. [74] On February 17, residents of Austin were asked not to drip their faucets despite the risk of pipes freezing as the demand for water in the city was more than 2.5 times the amount supplied on the previous day. [75]
The Long Depression was a worldwide price and economic recession, beginning in 1873 and running either through March 1879, or 1899, depending on the metrics used. [1] It was most severe in Europe and the United States, which had been experiencing strong economic growth fueled by the Second Industrial Revolution in the decade following the American Civil War.
The effects of the boom helped offset the effects of the Depression so much that Houston was called the "city the Depression forgot." [ 63 ] Dallas and other Texas communities were also able to weather the Depression better than many American cities because of oil.
This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on Tuesday, reviving ...
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Large areas of many northern cities in the United States experienced population decreases and a degradation of urban areas. [26] Inner-city property values declined, and economically disadvantaged populations moved in. In the U.S., the new inner-city poor were often African-Americans that migrated from the South in the 1920s and 1930s.
Here’s what happened: • Storm turns deadly: At least four people died in traffic crashes caused by the storm. A 28-year-old man died after his pickup truck ran into a trailer that jackknifed ...
The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929–1933 (University of Missouri Press, 2012) Rauchway, Eric. The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (2008) excerpt and text search; Roose, Kenneth D. "The Recession of 1937–38" Journal of Political Economy, 56#3 (1948), pp. 239–248 in JSTOR; Rose, Nancy.