Anniversary of Beryl and Emergency Prep Legislation This Session Did Not Prepare Long-Term Care for Another Hurricane

Claire Hao at The Houston Chronicle was very thorough in this article summing up where we are with emergency prep legislation in Texas. I hope her piece resonates with out legislature.

And for @LeadingAgeTX  to suggest "asking families to take their loved ones home" as an alternative to the 24/7 supervised, professional, skilled care required to keep many long-term care residents alive not only negates the value of the industry itself, but also presumes such care is superfluous, that all residents have families available, and that families have quick, ready access to facilities at all hours during tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, lightning strikes, wildfires, transformer explosions, construction accidents and all the other conditions that create power outages. It. Is. Absurd. And, it demonstrates Senator Cook's comment that "we are seeing an absolute refusal to put people over profit over and over again, and it is killing seniors".

Texas fails to require backup power at senior homes after Beryl

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