The cold turned deadly without proper means of staying warm. The Texas Department of State Health Services reports 246 people died due to winter storm-related deaths, 161 of those deaths were directly related to extreme cold exposure.
A winter storm like nothing Texas has ever seen, a week of emergencies and uncertainties, and now, a year later, East Texas counties reflect on what went wrong and what’s been done to better prepare in the event of another winter weather emergency.
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