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But, what?

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Can we do to help what can the government do to help another citizens

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do to help and what do you do in the immediate to get people who are scared that they're,

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they're children are older relatives are going to freeze?

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Performs I'm so grateful that by the administration has stepped up

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and is sending much needed assistance including generators to

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taxes to help generator our to keep people warm ensure

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...can stay alive survive this second we

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have some extraordinary local leaders we talked about the absence of leadership...the

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...level but you get down to errors county home to houston

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...allthe extraordinary county judge their clay jenkins...north

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sexes the judge of dallas county and many others across the state are stepping

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up right now at the moment that there is a vacuum of leadership on

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a neighborhood level we can look out for those who might need some help if you got sheep in

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your home if you have a working fireplace, for example, gather those neighbors especially the most

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vulnerable in your home and help to keep them warm I just got a call from a friend

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in galveston who's doing that right now he says he's...last you logs and,

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he's got all...result sure what they're going to burn after that but that's a

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very text this thing to do is to get out there and help those who are

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...heard matthew dowd talking about doing that for folks with his truck that works that's able to get

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through these icy roads he's helping to deliver assistance to those who need it

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...emergency services number...you can call it's not

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a nine-one-one emergency works life-or-death or you're running out

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of energy for a medical devices keep you alive and cultural

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...one there you can find out where the nearest warming center is in

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...are places that have heat and generations of our and you can

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staying warm...a it's a temporary fix but...

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something that many texans need right now so those are...and things we can do immediately

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and obviously...look at some of those long-term solutions that I mentioned earlier with

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arising having additional capacity joining the national grid and

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taking climate change seriously and making policy that addresses it and

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especially those communities...its inverse?