This Dallas family’s pet bird died in the winter storm. Then a stranger swooped in
After reading about the Pleasant Grove family’s plight in The Dallas Morning News, a 33-year-old woman went out and bought them a Lovebird.
Marleny Almendarez, 38, holds in her hands a new pet bird, a peach-faced lovebird, that Allison Olivarez gave her in Dallas on Friday, February 26, 2021. Almendarez lost her lovebird Little Rainbow during the severe winter storm that hit Texas a week ago when he froze to death after the power went out in Almendarez house for days bringing the temperature around 40 degrees Fahrenheit inside her home.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Already hit hard by pandemic, Black and Hispanic communities suffer the blows of an unforgiving winter storm click to enlarge Ben Torres for The Texas Tribune Marleny Almendarez, 38, with her niece Madelyne Hernandez, 3, and two boys, Aaron Hall, 11, and Matthew Hall, 14, outside their home in Dallas on Feb. 18, 2021. The family spent two nights at a mobile warming station to avoid the cold temperatures. Neighborhoods across the state some lined with million dollar homes, others by more modest dwellings went cold and dark for days as Texas struggled to keep the power on during a dangerous winter storm. But while the catastrophe wrought by unprecedented weather was shared by millions left shivering in their own homes, the suffering was not equally spread.