Good thing Mexico sends more than people north
Mexico provides electricity to ice storm-hit Texas
Mexico will provide electricity to Texas to help the state weather an ice storm that has forced rolling blackouts.
Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission says it has agreed to transmit 280 megawatts of electricity to Texas between Wednesday and Thursday night.
A commission statement says the electricity will be transmitted at interconnection points in Nuevo Laredo - across the border from Laredo, Texas - and Piedras Negras, which sits opposite of Eagle Pass, Texas.
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"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
