Over 150,000 Without Power in Texas After Intense Storm Hits

Over 150,000 Without Power in Texas After Intense Storm Hits

Over 150,000 Without Power in Texas , After Intense Storm Hits.

CBS News reports that as a storm in California moved east on March 2, tornadoes, rain and hail hit Texas and Louisiana.

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CBS News reports that as a storm in California moved east on March 2, tornadoes, rain and hail hit Texas and Louisiana.

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CBS News reports that as a storm in California moved east on March 2, tornadoes, rain and hail hit Texas and Louisiana.

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Early on March 3, PowerOutage.us reported that over 150,000 Texans had no power.

That number was down from 338,000 without power earlier.

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About 400 flights to and from the area were canceled.

The Federal Aviation Administration's ground stop was later lifted.

Normal operations are resuming after heavy winds and rains moved through our area.

, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, to CBS News.

Several school districts canceled events due to the impending storm.

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This is the same system that struck California and it's now in New Mexico and will be crossing Texas and then Arkansas, Rich Thompson, lead forecaster for the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, via CBS News.

Some areas of California and Oregon accumulated up to 7 feet of snow.

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However, experts say that the "once-in-a-generation" snow helped to reduce, or even eliminate, drought conditions in some areas of California