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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) Texas is now moving into week two of recovery efforts following the winter storm.
During a briefing with President Joe Biden, Harris County s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Coordinator Mark Sloan said in initial reports, 10,400 county residents reported broken pipes that caused damage to their homes.
Andrew Mitchell and his brother-in-law Isaiah Pinnock with Mitchell s Plumbing & Heating, LLC traveled from New Jersey to help make repairs for Houston-area families. The major problem is that, they have no water at all. So, what we try to do when we go to someone s house [is] we leave them with water, and we try our very best to make sure everything is working, Mitchell said. Out of the 60+ people, it s three [people] that we need to get back to.
The need is so dire that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has made an appeal to out-of-state plumbers, waiving requirements for expired license-holders and fees.
A New Jersey plumber drove his family to Texas to help with repairs after devastating storm By Caitlin O Kane N.J. plumber drives to Texas to help after storms
When a winter storm devastated Texas earlier this month, the crisis hit home for Andrew Mitchell. Mitchell lives in New Jersey, but as a plumber, he saw how much work needed to be done when pipes froze and burst in homes across the Lone Star State. So, he and his family decided to help.
Mitchell s wife, Kisha Pinnock, has a sister who lives in Houston. Pinnock told CBS News that after talking to her sister, she realized how destructive the storm was. That s when we really learned from first hand just how really bad it was, Pinnock said. That s when she told us what was happening with her coworkers, her neighbors, her friends.