After Texas’ catastrophic winter blackout, a federally funded program is helping weatherize a South Dallas home. | via keranews
Contractors working for Dallas County installed sunscreens over all the windows in 74-year-old Ruby Young's house to block the heat during the summer.
Ruby Young huddled around a portable heater with her grandson after a catastrophic winter blackout knocked out power to her home in South Dallas’ Cedar Crest neighborhood for about a week. “It was very, very cold,” the 74-year-old homeowner said. “It [the heat] would come and then it would go off for two or three days and we didn’t have any.”
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