There will be many climate change deaths.

had no homes to go back to. Now Houston has it own suffering. Plus they are ruled over by vile Gov Abbott and his Repugs in their legislature.

As for Beryl, Abbott and Patrick did not ask for disaster relief
until Patrick finally answered Biden's phone call.

Ugly.

If there have also been deaths or serious medical problems with all the power being out to pharmacies. I was lucky since I had enough to make it through with my medications.

... that the embodiment of pure, malignant evil, also known as Governor Greg Abbott, rescinded laws requiring employers and state agency chiefs to provide water and cooling-off breaks for outdoor workers, especially during periods of extreme heat.

It is possible that the number of Texans who wish that tree had been bigger, is increasing in direct proportion to the number of Texans that died because of Abbott's actions, not to mention gross negligence.

Sooner or later, Texans will have to smarten the fuck up, roll Abbott to the curb, and elect someone as governor who actually put the welfare of Texans ahead of the malign interests of corporatists. That someone would have to be a Democrat, cuz they ain't no Republican that would be caught dead doing good.

We did ok during Beryl we were without power about 24 hours, and actually a little longer without internet! We live in the suburbs south of Houston, have reliable vehicles, found places to eat & get back on our phones (they were charged in our car and via power banks). Suburban folks can deal to some degree, even though it's painful to throw away all the food you lose. Some even have whole house generators, or portables to run things like the refrigerator and not lose as much. But there are so many people who are also not in that position. If you have any sort of medical condition & could get to an ER, that is probably where you would go to seek a/c, oxygen, and whatever else you need. If you have the means to get there. I'm sure we will never get a full death count because there are folks who are somewhat off the grid and/or no one to look for them.

Re Boliver -- There was a big thing with Hurricane Ike years ago - I remember it vividly because Texas Equ-search had some fliers up looking for people who seemed to be missing from Boliver Island. Cat 2 Hurricane, strong storm surge, and I noticed when I was checking the Galveston press that after a point nobody could even get to Galveston (they stopped traffic in/out of the Island). Bolivar is beyond that, it's a peninsula that folks would get to via ferry from Galveston. It jutts out into the gulf, so the surge would have cut right over it. It's unlikely that folks on the peninsula survived that surge. This was the quote in Wiki about deaths: "As of December 27, 2008, 37 people are known to have died in Texas due to Ike while hundreds are still missing."