Austin's medically vulnerable had to survive outage threat amid freeze
As the rooms of her East Austin home got colder and colder, Amanda Phillips said she felt her breaths getting thinner. She and her 6-year-old son, who are both fighting COVID-19, spent a total of about 30 hours over the course of two days last week without power. Among the tens of thousands in the city struggling without power or water for several days during last week's historic freeze, the most medically vulnerable found themselves left to manage on their own. "When we first lost power, everyone was saying it was a rolling blackout. And then it was extended, extended and extended," Phi...
Source: statesman.com