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19 Feb, 18 tweets, 7 min read
TEXAS LATEST:

• 192,000+ still without power

• 13,000,000 under boil water orders

• At least 43 people from 10 different states have died because of weather-related fatalities since Thursday, the majority in Texas

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Firefighters near San Antonio had to truck in water Thursday to battle a blaze that devastated an apartment building because hydrants were frozen, a fire chief says.

No one was injured in the fire.

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📷 Instagram / Oliviarez_ / Reuters
Demonstrators stand in front of Sen. Cruz's home Thursday in Houston.

Cruz says his decision to go to Cancún as Texans suffer without heat, water and power was "a mistake" that he now regrets.

nbcnews.to/3azN4MV

📷 Marie D. De Jesús / Houston Chronicle / AP
Residents take refuge at a shelter after record-breaking winter temperatures in Galveston, Texas, on Thursday.

📷 Adrees Latif / Reuters
Volunteers hand out meals at a Salvation Army facility after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Plano, Texas, on Thursday.

📷 Shelby Tauber / Reuters
Snacks are served with words of encouragement at a Salvation Army facility, which held a shelter after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Plano, Texas, on Thursday.

📷 Shelby Tauber / Reuters
Texas homeless population seeks refuge amid bone-chilling temperatures.

"Everyone is struggling right now, especially those who are sleeping outside."

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📷 Montinique Monroe / Getty
People wait for the Randall's grocery store to open as they look to purchase essentials Friday in Austin, Texas.

📷 Joe Raedle / Getty
Makeshift insulation surrounds a faucet in Houston as the city remains under a boil water advisory following an unprecedented winter storm Friday.

📷 Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters
Jim Curtis helps a woman search for a way to shut off her water after she found a leak following an unprecedented winter storm in Houston on Friday.

📷 Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters
Mark Majkrzak gives out bottles of Rain Pure Mountain Spring Water to people in need in Austin, Texas, on Friday.

Majkrzak, the founder of the company, said he drove from Georgia to deliver the water.

📷 Joe Raedle / Getty
Cars line up at a water distribution site Friday in Houston.

The drive-thru location was set up to provide water to individuals who need it while the city remains under a boil water notice.

📷 David J. Phillip / AP
Cases of water are loaded into cars at a City of Houston water distribution site on Friday.

The city remains under a boil water notice.

📷 David J. Phillip / AP
A police vehicle travels along a closed 10-lane section of Interstate 410 on Friday in San Antonio.

Many roads, highways and interstates remain closed to icy conditions.

📷 Eric Gay / AP
Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle hands out water at a distribution site Friday in Houston.

The city remains under a boil water notice.

📷 David J. Phillip / AP
Cars line up at a food distribution site run by West Houston Assistance Ministries on Friday after winter weather caused food and clean water shortages in Houston.

📷 Go Nakamura / Reuters
Workers of West Houston Assistance Ministries bring food packages to those in need at a food distribution site after winter weather caused food and clean water shortages in Houston.

📷 Go Nakamura / Reuters
Cars line up to receive free water at Delmar Stadium in Houston on Friday.

Many Houston residents still do not have drinkable water at their homes and are relying on city water giveaways.

📷 Justin Sullivan / Getty

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