A Horrific Discovery Was Made In A Texas Home Battered By The Winter Storm

A man in Texas froze to death while sitting in his recliner on Wednesday. The man was found sitting next to his “nearly dead” wife after their home in Abilene lost power during the winter storm that has wreaked havoc on the state.

The man’s wife is “still in peril” but is receiving medical care at a local hospital.

From Fox News:

“You guys read that? A man FROZE TO DEATH under our collective noses. In Abilene! I don’t even know what to do with this information. Except to check on my immediate neighbors,” he wrote on Facebook Thursday.

“I don’t know any solution for anything really right now,” Casey wrote. “Except people freezing to death near me is not ok. Not ok. Not ok.”

Power was restored Thursday to some homes and businesses in Texas — but not before more than three dozen people died while trying to keep warm. 

At least three people also died in Abilene this week due to the extreme cold, including a man who froze to death in his home, Abilene’s KTXS-TV reported. It wasn’t immediately clear if that man was the person who reportedly died in his recliner.

Just under 500,000 homes and businesses remained without power Thursday, down from about 3 million Wednesday. Meanwhile, nearly half the state’s approximately 29 million residents — were under an advisory to boil drinking water, reports said.

The remaining power outages were largely weather-related, rather than forced blackouts that began Monday to stabilize the power grid, the state’s grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said.

Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations, warned that limited rolling blackouts could return if electricity demand rises as people get power and heating back.