Bonzer and Quigley got Cassie Moore through the night.
After days without power in the Houston suburb of Jersey Village, the 35-year-old writer and educator could see her breath in the house. Her plants were dying. So Moore and her husband built a tent with living-room curtains in front of their gas fireplace. They slept in shifts Tuesday night ¡ª with their two Australian shepherds sharing their body heat.
¡°It¡¯s not the safest option, but it was between that and sitting in the car and freezing,¡± Moore said. ¡°You¡¯re really relying on yourself. Every single person I talk to is in survival mode.¡±
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