New numbers from the Texas Department of State Health Services show 111 people died of causes related to last month’s winter storm.
Nine of those deaths were in Travis County — the second highest death toll in the state. Harris County had the most confirmed deaths from the storm at 31.
DSHS says the majority of the deaths were from hypothermia, but there were also fatalities caused by “motor vehicle accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning, medical equipment failure, exacerbation of chronic illness, lack of home oxygen, falls, and fire.”
The storm led to widespread blackouts in the state that lasted for days, leaving millions of Texans in homes without heat as temperatures dipped into the single digits.
This is likely not a complete count of storm-related deaths, as the state is still going through death reports.
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