Such a tragedy!
11-Year-Old Texas Boy Dies From Frigid Temperatures And No ElectricityPeople have rallied to raise more than $35K for 11-year-old Cristian Pavon
A Texas boy was found dead on Tuesday after a winter storm left hundreds of thousands without power as temperatures dropped in the single digits. Cristian Pavon was 11 years old.
Cristian excitedly played in the snow the day before his death, his mother Maria Elisa Pineda told Univision. He came inside, ate dinner and went to bed under a pile of blankets with his 3-year-old stepbrother in their unheated mobile home in Conroe, about 40 miles from Houston.
“He was OK,†Pineda said. “He had dinner, he played and he went to bed.â€
Julie Scagell
Thu, February 18, 2021, 10:49 PM
People have rallied to raise more than $35K for 11-year-old Cristian Pavon
A Texas boy was found dead on Tuesday after a winter storm left hundreds of thousands without power as temperatures dropped in the single digits. Cristian Pavon was 11 years old.
Cristian excitedly played in the snow the day before his death, his mother Maria Elisa Pineda told Univision. He came inside, ate dinner and went to bed under a pile of blankets with his 3-year-old stepbrother in their unheated mobile home in Conroe, about 40 miles from Houston.
“He was OK,†Pineda said. “He had dinner, he played and he went to bed.â€
At some point during the night, Cristian’s stepfather checked on the kids. According to his aunt, Jaliza Yera, they were still responsive.
“He made sure they were OK,†Yera told KTRK. “They were still breathing. He covered them up, patted them and went back to sleep.†When they went to wake him the next day, he was dead.
According to the GoFundMe set up by Yera, “This family went without electricity for two days. The early morning of Feb. 16 dropped to 12 degrees. Cristian was found lifeless.â€
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages most of the state power grid, said Thursday morning it had “made significant progress overnight restoring customer power, although some outages still remain throughout the state.†But that wasn’t enough to save at least 47 people, including Cristian, who’ve died since the storm began................
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