News from around our 50 states: Texas
The weeklong, record-breaking February freeze this past winter in Texas led to crises of power, water, food, shelter, medical care, transportation and emergency response. A report published by the city Thursday identified a myriad of issues the community experienced that week and offered 132 recommendations about how to be better prepared for the next disaster.
The freeze “was an overlapping emergency with overwhelming and cascading community impacts,” says the report, written by the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management departments with the help of Hagerty Consulting.
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