“She’s in a wheelchair asking for some water,” posted Katie Baxley-Tosch to the Rail Club Live!’s Facebook page regarding a neighbor.
A family hadn’t eaten for days, Polone says. Entire apartment complexes were without water. Some had been sleeping on frozen sidewalks.
“When I told people what we needed [through Facebook Live], it showed up,” he says. “The community got the word out.
“It wasn’t us,” he continues. “We had the four walls. We had the building. We had the heat. But it was the community.”
Polone, who describes the bar as “broke” and facing permanent closure, says although things are looking grim and there was no money for food, or anything else, people stepped up just as they have throughout the pandemic.
Texas Natural Gas Prices Attract Federal Investigation After 10,000% Spike
02/23/21 AT 6:08 PM
After Texan natural gas companies used massive price hikes to make money during the recent deadly winter storms, federal regulators are taking a closer look at the state’s energy market.
The 10,000% increase has attracted the attention of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Congress, CNN reports.
As Texas spent days under snow, wind and freezing temperatures, natural gas companies found themselves in a market defined by scarcity. Infrastructure failures had also crippled production and distribution, opening the door for companies to charge desperate Texans hundreds of times their normal rates.