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BBOCK(AP) — Panhandle resi-
awoke to a snowstorm Tuesday,
ng many to trudge through wintry
s to get to the polls on Election Day
as much as 9 inches of snow blan-
some parts of the region,
le snow stretched from areas south
Lubbock to areas north of Amarillo,
[roads became snowpacked and slushy,
w continued to fall throughout the
■worsening conditions, decreasing
plility and blanketing already snow-
ivired trees and cars.
pVe’re still snowing,” said Richard
ivls, a meteorologist with the Nation-
^Jeather Service in Amarillo. “We’ve
[Ma total of 7 inches on the ground here
e Panhandle town of Boys Ranch
19 inches on the ground by 5 p.m.,
“When I looked
out this morning, I
didn't expect to see
this much snow. I
thought maybe
little flakes. But
surprise, it's like
Christmas."
— Mary Jane Gutierrez
Lubbock resident
while Vega and Claude both had be
tween 5 and 6 inches. Channing and
Shamrock had between 3 and 4 inches.
Lubbock received about 4 inches and
was anticipating more.
As much as a foot of snow was ex
pected to be on the ground near Boys
Ranch by midnight Tuesday, with 10
inches expected in Amarillo. Lesser
amounts between 5 and 7 inches were
forecast in Lubbock.
“If it is not an emergency, we recom
mend staying at home,” Davis said.
“Snow reduces visibility worse than
about any other phenomena that we
have. It reflects light because it’s white,
so it cuts down on being able to see
through it.”
Davis said overnight lows in the 20s
could freeze wet roads into a sheet of
ice. “It will refreeze again Wednesday
night and then Thursday it will begin to
melt,” he said.
In El Paso, Trans Mountain Road —
the highest road in Texas at about 5,200
feet above sea level — snow was accu
mulating but had not yet been closed as
of Tuesday evening. The road joins the
two sides of El Paso across the Franklin
Mountains.
“I would rather have this than the
ice,” said Mary Jane Gutierrez, cam
paigning outside McWhorter Elemen
tary in Lubbock for her husband, who
was running for county commissioner.
“When I looked out this morning, I
didn’t expect to see this much snow,” she
said. “I thought maybe little flakes. But
surprise, it’s like Christmas.”
News in Brief
Electric utility
deregulation
moving slowly
AUSTIN (AP) — Dereg
ulating the electric power
industry — touted as a
way to bring cheaper,
more plentiful power to
homes and businesses
— has had a slow start in
Texas.
Almost two months af
ter Sept. 1, the first day
new retailers could file to
begin providing electricity
to homes and small busi
nesses, only one applica
tion had come in.
“No one wanted to be
first,” Janee Briesemeis-
ter, a policy analyst with
Consumer Union’s Austin
office, told the Texas
Journal of The Wall Street
Journal in Wednesday’s
editions.
Executives of New Pow
er Co., a subsidiary of
Greenwich, Conn.-based
TNPC Inc., submitted the
first application to be a re
tail electricity provider —
buying electricity from
power generators, then re
selling it to consumers.
Houston-based Enron
Corp. formed the compa
ny and is the largest
shareholder. Executives of
New Power also have a
marketing deal with Amer-,
ica Online Inc., of Dulles
Va., and Armonk, N.Y
based International Busi
ness Machines Corp. has,
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