Santa Maria area seniors ready to graduate after overcoming many challenges during pandemic
Righetti High School student Audrey Herrera is one of hundreds of Santa Maria area seniors preparing to graduate this week. (Dave Alley/KEYT)
SANTA MARIA, Calif. Santa Maria Valley seniors are preparing to graduate this week after facing and overcoming many challenges over the past 15 months during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a little difficult, said Righetti High School senior Audrey Herrera. Seniors have lost out on a lot of opportunities, and fun memories that we have been looking forward to senior year and stuff, and so that has been very difficult.
One thing after another : Rural Texans faced the same storm — with unique hardships
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Marfa is covered with snow on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Like other parts of Texas, rural communities were hammered by the winter storm that left families without the basic necessities of heat and running water. But temperatures in the country dipped lower than in cities, plummeting to the low single digits.
Last week s winter storm was brutal for the whole state, but rural Texans faced particular hardships, like distance from helpful neighbors. And newborn calves.
As humanitarian aid workers in Armenia and South Sudan, Jerry and Meaghan Kenney have huddled around wood stoves to keep warm and bathed with buckets for lack of water. But the couple didn’t expect they’d need such survival skills to get through the winter storm at their home outside Hudson, in deep East Texas.