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Austin 360
When the recent winter storm knocked out power and water to thousands of Austinites, Andrea Lewis and her 3-year-old sat in their cold apartment for 24 hours before deciding to drive to the closest family member’s house in San Antonio on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
The drive took more than 2 ½ hours. She messaged her boss at Wheatsville Food Co-op to say she wouldn’t be able to make several of her shifts, she said.
Within a week, she and at least one other employee would be without a job at all.
Lewis was scheduled to work on Friday, Feb. 19, but she was still in San Antonio dealing with another round of snow that fell Thursday night. They had no idea what was going on at their apartment back in Austin, she said, so they stayed one more night.