Houston Businesses Emerge From Winter Freeze
Houston Businesses Emerge From Winter Freeze © Jeff Lautenberger for The Wall Street Journal HOUSTON—As Henry Nguyen reopened his hair salon in southwest Houston, half a dozen neighbors rushed in—not for hair cuts, but to wash their hair. They had gone days without running water at home. The winter freeze that cut power and water across much of America’s fourth-largest city had forced Mr. Nguyen to close his salon for four days as he scrambled to protect his home water pipes, wrestled with a lifeless generator and sent his three children to a friend’s house to escape the relentless ...