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This Dallas family’s pet bird died in the winter storm. Then a stranger swooped in After reading about the Pleasant Grove family’s plight in The Dallas Morning News, a 33-year-old woman went out and bought them a Lovebird. Marleny Almendarez, 38, holds in her hands a new pet bird, a peach-faced lovebird, that Allison Olivarez gave her in Dallas on Friday, February 26, 2021. Almendarez lost her lovebird Little Rainbow during the severe winter storm that hit Texas a week ago when he froze to death after the power went out in Almendarez house for days bringing the temperature around 40 degre...

More than 1,100 water suppliers affected, nearly half the state’s residents scavenge for clean water.  By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue – February 22, 2021 By Saturday, as the deep freeze lifted and temperatures across Texas warmed to near normal for this time of year, water poured from broken lines beneath streets. Fountains of water sprayed from valves and cracks in building exteriors. Indoor waterfalls spilled from caved-in ceilings in schools and homes and hospitals. Homeowners gathered up the last remnants of melting snow and stored them in buckets and bathtubs.  “Where do you w...

Texans of color, disproportionately devastated by death and unemployment during the last year, tend to live in neighborhoods with older homes, more vulnerable pipes and fewer food options. That's made it harder to withstand the cold temperatures and power outages.

A mother of a son on the autism spectrum. A daughter of a woman with dementia. These Pleasant Grove residents used a charter bus to escape cold

While the catastrophe wrought by unprecedented weather in Texas was shared by millions left shivering in their own homes, the suffering was not equally spread.