Timothy Wilsey, his wife Nicole and his 7-year-old son have been without power for 72 hours, and they are forced to use their cars for heat and to recharge their batteries and phones, ‘their only communication’.
The Euless family, Texas, said their apartment is currently only heated by candles.
“We keep going through old school and reading books and playing board games,” he told CNN in an email from Euless, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Timothy says they only use their phones to watch the news quickly so they can keep abreast of the power outage and to search for restaurants that are open and serving food.
“We mostly lie under beds in bed,” Timothy said. “The only time we leave the bed is to go to the car to warm up the phones and batteries.”
They put the food they can save from their freezer on their porch so it can stay warmer, but they have no other way to cook food. The food they do have is largely limited to beef sticks, beef, chips and a few cookies; As for drinks, they have bottled water and a little bottled tea, but that’s it.
‘Other them [sic] that we hope that the restaurants are open and serve hot food, ”he said. “Sorry, hard to type while your hands are cold.”
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