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Despite past storms’ lessons, long-term care residents again left powerless

A woman sits in a chair next to her dog, who is laying in an arm chair
Tina Kitzmiller and her dog, Kai, have been without power in a Houston senior independent living facility in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which knocked out the electricity to more than 2 million people. She moved to the facility after riding out a May derecho in her RV, thinking the facility would be safer. “I didn’t know I needed to inquire about a generator,” she says. (Sandy West for KFF Health News/TNS)
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Even after multiple incidents of extreme weather, not much has changed for those living in long-term care facilities when natural disasters strike in Texas or elsewhere.

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