Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas Homes After Deep Freeze

Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas Homes After Deep Freeze
Eithan Colindres wears a winter coat inside after the apartment his family lives in lost power following an overnight snowfall in Houston, on Feb. 15, 2021. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, File
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DALLAS—With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes

Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice, and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in his bed in Conroe, near Houston, and two older men found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County.