The Houston native Grammy-nominated rapper and his foundation joined forces with the City of Houston and theHouston Health Foundationto provide approximately 50,000 hot meals to local community members.
Winter Storm Uri, officially named the North American Winter Storm, caused widespread heavy snowfall and subzero temperatures across Texas earlier this month.
Travis Scott.
Courtesy City of Houston Mayors Office
The severe storm began on Feb. 13 and concluded on Feb. 17, leaving millions of Texas residents without water, heat or electricity after severely damaging essential infrastructure. The blizzard brought record low temperatures, ice and snow to more than 25 states, spanning more than 2,000 miles between south Texas and northern Maine, according to theNational Weather Service.
Winter Storm Uri also places community members coping with COVID-19 or coronavirus-related health conditions at higher risk.
On Feb. 17, it was announced that theElectric Reliability Council of Texashad directed utilities to restore electricity for more than 600,000 impacted customers.
As of Monday, nearly 8.8 million people were still under boil-water orders, according to theTexas Commission of Environmental Quality, while 120,000 people had no water service at all, perNBC News.
Respective boil-water notices were issued in Texas cities Houston and Austin last week — the public health advisories urge residents to limit the use of local water sources and avoid consuming drinking water (or faucet water) that may contain harmful bacteria or viruses, including COVID-19.
Houstonlifted its noticeon Sunday, while theCity of Austin announced Tuesdaythat it would lift its restriction on Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. local time — citing that with 120 million gallons of water in reserves, Austin’s water system had “safely entered into a healthy range.”
source: people.com
