As Texas leads the nation in Black growth, Tiara Dawson, a newcomer, acknowledges that many lack the survival skills needed for the state's increasing number of climate disasters. Credit: Riot Muse
By Adam Mahoney, Inside Climate News, December 15, 2023
Stephanie Roberson wasn’t expecting this phone call from her husband, Corey.
“I can’t do this anymore,” she remembers him saying. Do what? Her mind went racing.
He was stuck on a mountain over 400 miles away from his family in Cincinnati, his big rig trapped in nearly 3 feet of snow that had blanketed parts of Virginia during that January 2016 storm.
He was tired. Roberson was exhausted by it all, too — the ice-slicked roads and power lines freezing until they snapped like twigs. Not to mention the threat of death: 55 people perished in that snowstorm.
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