From Texas Public Radio:
“Disability Rights Texas has opened its 2025 Disaster Resilience Survey to the disability community, and it invites public participation and suggestions through May.
The annual survey was started after the deadly February 2021 winter storm.
Stephanie Duke, supervising attorney and disaster resilience coordinator at Disability Rights Texas, said that in previous surveys, one of the main issues has been power.
“Those that are on life-sustaining, durable medical equipment obviously need to have options for backup power, whether that’s getting to an emergency sheltering operation that can help with that, or understanding internal battery life, or options to have a backup power source,” she explained. “If they’re low income, what are the options there to get emergency backup power sources if you can’t afford the generator? Stuff like that.”
Read the full article on the TPR website.