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October 28, 2025

Lacking community resilience centers, Houston neighbors create solar-powered ‘hub homes'

  • The effort looks to create pockets of preparedness in communities confronting more extreme weather.
    • By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA
    Associated Press

    HOUSTON — Doris Brown was nearly asleep when a neighbor knocked on her door, telling her to look outside. “There were no lights, nowhere,” said Brown, recalling the power outage that summer night in 2023. “I didn't even know it.”

    Brown's solar panel and battery system was keeping her power on. She'd prepared for a night like this. “Call everybody,” she told the neighbor.


     
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