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Frozen Texans Rely on Wits and Dogs to Find Water and Warmth

  • They seek basic needs in a state crippled by snow and ice
  • In crisis, ‘Every single person I talk to is in survival mode’
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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 -- with their two Australian shepherds sharing their body heat.