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US needs to brace itself for more deadly storms, experts say

by Ellen Knickmeyer & Matthew Daly
| February 18, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America needs to get better at dealing with it, experts said as Texas and other states battled winter storms that blew past the worst-case planning of utilities, governments and millions of shivering residents.

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