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Post residents help their community on fifth day without water Post residents helping their community on fifth day without water By Melanie Camacho | February 24, 2021 at 11:15 PM CST - Updated February 24 at 11:16 PM LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Members of the Post community helped their fellow residents to get water again on Wednesday, which marks the fifth day residents of Post have been without safe water due damages brought by the recent historic snowstorms. On Wednesday, some citizens said they finally had water flowing, but the city has urged them not to use it. “We just ask the citi...

City of Post pulls together to endure days without water City of Post still battling water issues By Blair Sabol | February 22, 2021 at 11:12 PM CST - Updated February 23 at 8:09 AM POST, Texas (KCBD) - The city of Post has now been without water for more than three days. It’s the longest they have been without, emergency management coordinator of Garza County, Michael Isbell, said. “It was a shock to everybody, it’s a tough situation to be in,” he said. “The last 72 hours have been pretty rough, ever since the freeze hit. We’ve got a house on the north end of town and all th...

In Arizona, the population of adults aged 65 and older is expected to increase by 174% by 2050. As this demographic surges, health advocates and professionals want to help older adults and community members prepare and educate themselves on one of the major issues plaguing Arizona’s older populations: falls.  According to Lee Itule-Klasen, a co-lead for the Southern chapter of the Arizona Falls Prevention Coalition, the data on falls is relatively limited but the state is seeing high fall mortality rates and thousands of emergency room visits. In 2018, it was the leading cause of inju...