More than 175 million people will face snow, rain, sleet and ice through the weekend as record-breaking cold across the central and eastern regions fuels the season’s largest winter storm. In Texas, nearly 50,000 customers were out of power as of 11:19 p.m. New York Time, according to tracker PowerOutage.com. The storm is set to be one of the biggest tests of the state’s electric grid since the deadly collapse during a freeze in February 2021 that killed more than 240 people and paralyzed the entire state.