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Disaster Relief: Providing food assistance to people in need. Austin, Texas residents are frustrated with the electric power grid, and shivering in their homes days after losing power in a deadly winter storm. An Arctic cold front was expected to move from Canada into the northern Plains and Upper Midwest and sweep into the Northeast. Wind chills in some areas could dive below minus 50 Fahrenheit. In Austin, city officials compared the damage from fallen trees and iced-over power lines to tornadoes as they came under mounting criticism for slow repairs and shifting timelines to restore power. Across Texas, more than 250,00 customers lacked power early Friday, which was down from 430,000 on Thursday. The failures were most widespread in Austin. Impatience was rising there among about 126,000 customers two days after the electricity first went out, which for many also meant no heat. Power failures affected about 30% of customers in the city of nearly a million at any given time since Wednesday.
Disaster relief: Providing shelter, food, and water. Hundreds of residents lose their homes after tornado. destroys SE Houston apartment complex. The question on most of these residents' minds, where do we go from here? The Beamer Place Apartments is just one of several buildings that were destroyed in an EF3 tornado that touched down in southeast Houston Tuesday. Hundreds of families are left without a home because they were told it was not safe for them. Aerial views of the apartment complex show most of the structure collapsed in the tornado. Debris was found all over the ground, most of it destroying vehicles in the parking lot. Structural damage from a tornado in Pasadena, about 15 miles southeast of Houston, is “catastrophic,” according to the local police chief. There are multiple roads blocked, power lines and poles down and heavily damaged homes and other structures with debris covering a lot of this area.
Disaster Relief providing food water, and shelter: Dallas - A state of disaster has been declared in Dallas County after a day of intense, deadly rainfall. High water rescues happened again and again Monday morning as many parts of North Texas received record rainfall with vehicles being left stranded. After a bone-dry summer, in one day, this became the second-wettest August on record, nearly breaking a 24-hour rain total record and triggering deadly flooding. Along 635 in Mesquite between Military and Scyene, drivers were swallowed by rising water on the freeway and the road below. Someone's dogs were trapped in their car. A man with a rope pulled them out of danger the water was up to his nose. In Southeast Dallas along Hwy 175 Denmark, one man was brought out of his house, water was over a foot. Downtown Dallas and East Dallas were hit especially hard. Fort Worth and Ellis County also saw some flash flooding. *Note* Flood water is toxic.
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