Timothy Wilsey, his wife Nicole and his 7-year-old son have been without power for 72 hours and have been forced to use their cars for heat and to charge batteries and phones, “their only lines of communication”.
The Euless, Texas, family said their apartment is currently only heated by candles.
“We keep it busy going old fashioned and reading books and playing board games,” he told CNN via text message from Euless, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Timothy says they only use their phone to quickly catch the news so they can stay on top of the power outage and find restaurants that may be open and serving food.
“We usually lie under blankets in bed,” said Timothy. “The only time we leave the bed is to go to the car to warm up or charge the phones and batteries.”
They put the food they could keep from their freezer on their patio so it would stay warmer, but they had no other way to cook food. The food they have is largely limited to beef sticks, beef jerky, chips and some biscuits; As for things to drink, they have bottled water and some bottled tea, but that’s it.
Other she [sic] that we hope the restaurants are open and serve hot dishes, ”he said. “Sorry, hard to type with cold hands.”
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