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Well before the sun finally broke through the cloudy and icy haze in Texas Rio Grande Valley last week, Dale Murden knew he was in for a bad spell. After a few days of clearer skies and warmer weather let him assess the damage to his grapefruit orchard in Harlingen more closely, the South Texas citrus grower confirmed his fears. As time goes on, it ll start to look worse, said Murden, who is also the president of Hidalgo County-based Texas Citrus Mutual. The winter storm that paralyzed Texas for days last week is going to have lasting effects on Murden and his fellow citrus growers in the Rio Grande Valley after the extended freeze killed millions of pounds of citrus. The storm also brought the state s dairy industry, concentrated in the Panhandle, to a near standstill when widespread power outages halted processing. ....