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Tom Strzyz holds his head as he talks about what he went through during the winter storm that hit Texas in mid-February. Strzyz along with several residents, lost power, fetched water from the swimming pool and hot water only began to flow this week in spurts at the Wildflower Apts complex in Dallas on Thursday, March 11, 2021.(Lola Gomez)
Tom Strzyz sulked in the muggy air outside his mucky apartment.
The epic snowstorm, failed electricity and busted pipes have sent his spirits south. Almost four weeks since the Texas arctic blast began on Valentine’s Day, his apartment is still a mess, especially the bathroom where a wall turned to sponge from a water leak and exposed the timber.
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Holding her 6-month-old Juan Jr., Maria Magarin looks at the water damage she’s sustained to her apartment in far northeast Dallas on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Magarin sustained extensive water damage and lost hot water due to the epic snowstorm that hit a few weeks ago. Magarin fears the mold growing on her wet walls will make her young sons sick and that the saggy ceiling in a walk-in closet will collapse.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
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The grants were unanimously approved by the Mayor s Disaster Relief Fund advisory committee.
The committee is chaired by former U.S. Ambassador and current Hunt Consolidated Senior Vice President Jeanne Phillips.
The other members of the committee are the Dallas Foundation President and CEO Matthew Randazzo, UT Southwestern Vice President for Community and Corporate Relations Ruben Esquivel, the Beck Group s Executive Chairman Peter Beck, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax, and Mayor Eric Johnson s Chief of Staff Mary Elbanna.
“Last week’s brutal winter storms and catastrophic power outages tested our city’s resolve and our resilience, but our generous donors and the work of our grant recipients show the interminable strength of our communities,” Mayor Johnson said. “The people of Dallas are our city’s greatest asset, and I am thrilled that we will be able to help them recover and rebuild.”