While I considered making a new category for the issues in Texas, the prayer needs are great and expanding so I thought I should keep some updates here for now at least.
2 Austin area hospitals have no water. One of them is also losing heat. This is dire and because other area hospitals are also having some water pressure issues so transferring people is not an easy task. Hospital staff can't use restrooms, portal potties will need to be bright in and all non emergency surgeries are canceled. Patients who can be discharged are being discharged. My mind is going to all of the critical covid patients...
Pipes that are bursting are part of the problem because water is gushing in homes and businesses and crews can't get all the problems. Water presser is very low. Even fire sprinkler systems in apartments are bursting with the water pouriing down it is VERY difficult to shut off.
There is going to be a MAJOR housing crisis after this nightmare. Many places will be uninhabitable.
Judge ruled both parents unfit this morning. Tomorrow is disposition/best interests phase. Im testifying at some point tomorrow and then judge will rule what is in their best interests. Looks very promising but still tough when your kids' fate is in someone else's hands. After that, if it goes our way, its a couple months to a year of appeals and then adoption.
I'd just like to say that witness sequestration sucks.....and its worse on zoom because you can't stop paying attention to the screen so you aren't MIA when you are brought back in.