Cold snowstorm, warm heart

Visit the Vietnamese Facebook pages in Houston this week, full of volunteer information, more exciting than other marketing news as usual.

Van Nguyen wrote: “After 3 days of struggling with a life without electricity and water and the cold of the century, my family has electricity and water again.

From today to the end of the week, if any aunt needs to go to the doctor or buy food, you can bring it free. ”While you are reading these lines, these love ads are continuously posted. ..

Muddy Cajun Noodle Shop is giving away 50 free pho, X Design and Build Company is supporting people to have a house collapsed, cleaning the house, free consultation.

Then the invitations to stay, cook soup, minced meat porridge, boiled duck seeds, fry free rice, transport materials for the country aunt and uncle, then take the medicine, take free medical examination …

Reading until then, there are many young people who have heavy love of countrymen and motherland. They always have a need for kindness.

I suddenly saw from them the image that I had seen in the past in Vietnam: the urgent atmosphere of war, the spirit of the flood, the break of the dyke, the rain, the rising water, the warm protection, the share clothes to give rice, even though their age, they may not witness the daily hardships that their parents have ever experienced.

“I will cook 2 servings for each household for free, please come home to take it for you, whoever needs to text me, now I go to the market to buy prepared things.” Someone Yen Nhi Tran in Houston made a message like that, making Houston us warm, making the community closer.

More than a message to the countryman, it is a message for relatives and loved ones: whoever needs to text me, now I go to the market to buy stuff to prepare …

With more than 3 million residents living in power outages, dehydration, freezing, so many inconveniences and hardships that first happened in their lives made Texas think again.

Texas was hit by the blizzard of the century, hurting its pride as America’s largest producer of oil and gas, and would have to adjust the organization and plan everything, including its independent grid. me.

With the recent Texas Winter Storm, that icy situation is quite familiar to the northeastern states, but with hot southern countries like Texas it’s too sudden, more than a weather challenge.

Now there is electricity back in many places, most of them have running water, Internet companies compensate for the time of no access … Across the street of my house, two old men in thick clothes walk, inside hand, no, glove in gloves, in minus 3 degrees Celsius of wind. The colder they need to exercise.

Texas people awakened after the long days of the COVID-19 pandemic, after the 6-1 Capitol invasion, will now be stronger after the 15-2 blizzard with sharing. Hastag TexasStrong is being spread these tough days.

Ice and snow will pass, Texas will be strong again as it was in this state.