Share Your Winter Weather Nightmare Stories with City and State Leaders

February 20, 2021 | Shelby Skrhak | | Weather

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Unprecedented doesn’t even begin to describe what happened this month of a week we’ve all experienced. But area leaders are asking residents to share their experiences to help garner federal aid, inform legislators for upcoming hearings, and help understand exactly what went wrong.

Texas Disaster Self-Reporting Tool

FEMA Region 6 and the Texas Department of Emergency Management are asking for public feedback by filling out this Emergency Management survey to help assess the extent of the area’s damage. “Your participation can help ensure our communities receive the federal aid we’ll need for repairs and improvements,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted. He says the responses will help meet their FEMA threshold so that the federal government can approve individual assistance for uninsured and underinsured loss.

Texas Disaster Impacts Self-Reporting Tool

Dallas Residents’ After-Storm Needs

The city of Dallas is asking residents to let them know where the needs are greatest and how they can help. “We are working with neighborhoods, philanthropic & corporate partners to provide goods and services to our residents in need,” Dallas City Council Member Adam Bazaldua tweeted.

Dallas Residents’ After-Storm Needs

Texas House Public Comment

Legislators are asking Texans to share their experiences with the power grid failures in advance of the State Affairs and Energy Resources committees of the Texas House that will meet Feb. 25.

Texas House Public Comment

Here’s a look back at our winter weather coverage and articles full of helpful tips (and one rant).

Yes, We’re in an Energy Emergency Alert With Outages Expected for Hours by Shelby Skrhak
How to Keep Your Pipes From Freezing (And What to Do if They Freeze Anyway) by Joanna England
Without Power, This Old House Has Made Me a Weather Refugee Again by Karen Eubank | Historic Preservation
In Real-Estate Parlance, ‘Location, Location, Location’ Does Matter in Power Outages by Tommy Cummings
‘Historic Winter Weather’ Got You Cold And Ranty by Adlene Neely Dealey | Wednesday WTF
Dallas Builders Association Offers Advice on Coping with Winter Plumbing Emergencies by Phil Crone | Dallas Builders Association
Inspecting The Damage: Dealing With The Aftermath of Extreme Winter Weather by Green Scene Inspections | Upon Closer Inspection
Should North Texas Homes Be Built For Single-Digit Weather? by Candy Evans
Dallas Officials Detail Storm Response by Joshua Baethge
With Fort Worth Fighting The Weather, Neighbors of Ryan Place Become True First Responders by Eric Prokesh | Fort Worth Friday

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Shelby Skrhak

Shelby is Associate Editor of CandysDirt.com, where she writes and produces the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

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Barbara Noel on February 20, 2021 at 9:38 am

We were without power for 60 hours at one point it was three degrees in the house I couldn’t leave because we had animals and nobody was taking animals at the time my sister had to go stay with another family member so that she can be warm as she was on oxygen and she kept losing power over there as well this was just crazy somebody should be held accountable for it food loss we had just gotten food we both have to buy individual food so we lost food out of the fridge freezers this is just unacceptable what happened to Texas I have lived in the Sierra Nevada and North Carolina where it snows a lot and you lose power but you don’t lose power like this it’s back on shortly even in the hurricanes and tornadoes no matter what the weather is I am so appreciative of all the linemen and all the other people that work their asses off to get this stuff back on but when you have to stay in your car to stay warm and run out of gas in the driveway and have to get gas to get to the gas station to refill your gas so that you have a couple more days of war in and out of the car into the cold house but had to let the water drip had to keep the pipes warm so we didn’t have another catastrophe on top of no power I just don’t know who to complain to who’s going to replace anything who’s going to help anything but somebody needs to be held accountable for the power shortage and the way that it went out with absolutely no way to get it back on for as long as they did sorry for the rant but again I sure hope that state officials do something about this

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