By Matt Williams Outdoors Writer Mar 1, 2021 1 of 2 Texas wildlife experts say exotic animals like axis deer and black buck antelope were especially hard hit by the cold weather that gripped the state last week. These axis deer perished on an Edwards County ranch near Rocksprings, where temperatures dipped as low as 4 degrees. TPWD Photo, Ryan Schmidt Red drum killed by freezing temperatures in last weekâs winter blast float in Pringle Lake, a backwater estuary along the middle Texas coast near Port OâConnor. TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE The polar vortex that pummeled the south last week with snow, ice and record low temperatures caught lots of people off guard and wreaked havoc on life as we know it. Many who lived through Winter Storm Uri will forever remember it as a chaotic week when Texas froze over and all sorts of trouble came in the wake: