![]() Soon, he heard these words outside: “This is the Port Aransas police! Are you OK in there?” After he found his RV door stuck, he called police and the manager of his RV park. ![]() When Locke awoke in his RV Monday morning, “it was absolutely freezing, and all the electricity was out,” he said. With temperatures plunging to the low 20s, electrical service failing and water service lost, some folks hunkered down under multiple blankets at home, while others left town or took refuge in a “warming center” operated at the Civic Center and a shelter set up at First Baptist Church. Locke’s crazy situation was just one of many that Port Aransans had to bear during the historic freeze that struck Texas last week. Police were called, and someone grabbed a blowtorch. 15, his RV’s door frozen shut by an overnight accumulation of ice. Robert “Starr” Locke found himself trapped in his Port Aransas home on the morning of Monday, Feb. ![]() ![]() Madeline and her family were forced to keep Quincy warm in their arms after losing power in their house due to the cold weather. ![]() Madeline McLaughlin, 9, holds her Australian bearded dragon, Quincy, in her Port Aransas family home on Friday, Feb. ![]()
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