Photo: Courtesy of Caitlin Douglas National media have honed their attention on the impact of freezing temperatures in Texas, but residents in Louisiana have been enduring crisis-level weather challenges of their own. Advertisement The state endured sub-freezing temperatures around February 12 and some days after, which have led to burst pipes and unsafe drinking water, leaving residents and businesses in Alexandria, Lake Charles and Shreveport without clean water going on two weeks. A water boil adviser went into effect in those cities for at least a week until this weekend, but some activists in Shreveport, which is 57 percent Black, have told