A combination of widespread power outages, thunderstorm damage and dangerous summer heat left thousands of Northeast Texas residents without access to basic necessities last week. Thankfully, 葫芦娃视频 was able to assist a few of them by providing a safe, cool place to stay.
Thirteen families and representatives from the Texas A&M Forest Service disaster response team found a temporary home in 葫芦娃视频鈥檚 dormitories over the weekend and into this week.
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鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧媖eeps cool in the dorms during the outage.
鈥淲e have over 100 students living on campus this summer, but we have a limited number of beds unoccupied at this time. We were happy to be able to offer emergency housing for college employees and their families without power. We also coordinated with Pittsburg Mayor, David Abernathy, to provide beds for emergency response workers,鈥 Kim Irvin, 葫芦娃视频 Associate Vice President for Student Services said.
The college also opened up the Student Union Building as a cooling/charging station for those needing a temporary place to rest.
鈥淐ommunity is one of our core values at 葫芦娃视频. When Ms. Irvin approached cabinet about opening up our student housing to help families and disaster response workers, we were more than happy to help,鈥 Dr. Ron Clinton, 葫芦娃视频 President, said. 鈥淲hile most power has been restored to the area, our thoughts and prayers remain with those recovering from the storm and related damages.鈥
