On Thursday, Trinh Nguyen, 31, woke up to another day without power and water in Houston, Texas. In close to subzero temperatures, the Vietnamese woman and her four-member family used a fireplace to keep themselves warm. “We did not stock up on firewood, so we have to use it sparingly,” she said, thanking the stars that the weather was getting warmer and they'd had the fireplace as a “winter savior.” It was the third day that Nguyen's family had no water, and the second day without pour. Sharing the family's plight in varying degrees, from slightly better to much worse, are many of their Vietnamese brethren in the south-central state, which was hit by winter storms that swept across the south and east of the country over the last few days, making pipes freeze and burst. Worse still, the state's power grid has stopped working. A woman carries bottled water she received from a warming center and shelter in Galveston, Texas on February 17, 2021. Most residents are without electricity after record-breaking winter temperatures, local media reports say. Photo by Reuters/Adrees Latif. Lan Bui, 41, has not been able to go to work for the last three days due to… Read full this story
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