Griddy: Texas energy company that billed huge electricity bills during storm files for bankruptcy

Mark Majkrzak distributed bottled water to residents of Austin, Texas on Friday, February 19. Majkrzak, the founder of Rain Pure Mountain Spring Water, said he left Georgia to deliver the water.

Brendan Waldon repairs a utility pole in Odessa, Texas on Thursday, February 18.

Deloris Sanchez and Mallissa Lee sit on a couch while taking refuge in a Gallery furniture store that served as a warming station in Houston.

The vehicles are stopped Thursday on Interstate 35 in Killeen, Texas.

City workers repair a broken water line in McComb, Mississippi on Thursday.

Metropolitan Transit Authority workers shovel the stairs at a New York subway station on Thursday.

Emanuale Small heads to a Roanoke, Va., Bus station on Thursday. Small was due to go to a doctor’s appointment, and he was told they would push the time back a bit for him so he could still make it through the freezing conditions.

People take refuge in a shelter in Galveston, Texas on Thursday.

Cars drive slowly on an icy road in Washington, DC on Thursday.

Jose Blanco fills a cooler with water from a public park faucet in Houston on Thursday. Houston and several surrounding cities were subject to a boil water advisory.

Snow falls Thursday in Times Square in New York City.

Snow is cleared outside the United States Capitol on Thursday.

Jonathan Callahan expresses his gratitude after being referred to the heated shelter at the Johnnie Champion Community Center in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday, February 17. Some people staying at the shelter had lost electricity, water and heat in their homes as a result of winter storms. Others were homeless. Food, blankets and cots were provided.

Charles Andrews returns home to his neighborhood in Waco, Texas on Wednesday. Millions of people were still without electricity.

Nathan Halaney and Katherine Pena help their neighbor, Brenda Davis, at the scene of a structure fire in Austin, Texas on Wednesday.

Eric Traugott warms his young son, Eric Jr., next to a fire made from a wooden cabinet thrown outside their apartment in Austin on Wednesday.

Downed and broken trees are seen at a stopover in Huntington, West Virginia on Wednesday.

Sara Castillo loads firewood into her car in Dallas on Wednesday. Castillo’s family lost power on Sunday.

Customers wait outside a Home Depot to purchase supplies in Pearland, Texas on Wednesday. The store only allowed one person in at a time because it had no power.

A family in Austin is melting snow on their stove so they can have water to flush the toilet and wash the dishes on Wednesday. Their electricity had been restored, but they still had no running water.

Kendra Clements visits dog owner Billy Madden – along with his dogs Leroy Brown and Underdog – at Tribe Gym, a gym in Oklahoma City that has been turned into a temporary homeless shelter.

Manessa Grady adjusts an oil lamp while spending time with her sons Zechariah and Noah at their home in Austin on Tuesday, February 16.

Maria Patterson is breastfeeding her baby girl Tuesday at their home in Austin, which has had no electricity since Sunday night.

Electric service trucks line up in Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday.

Karla Perez and Esperanza Gonzalez warm up in front of a barbecue after their power was knocked out in Houston on Tuesday.

Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon stands on his kitchen counter to warm his feet on his gas stove in Austin.

Sunlight filters through steam in Omaha, Nebraska, where temperatures fell below zero on Tuesday.

Camilla Swindle sits in a shopping cart as she and her boyfriend wait in a long line to enter a grocery store in Austin on Tuesday.

Brett Archibad entertains his family as they try to stay warm in their home in Pflugerville, Texas on Tuesday.

Residents clear snow off a sidewalk in Chicago on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, customers use a cell phone light when shopping for meat at a Dallas grocery store. Even though the store lost power, it was open for cash sales only.

A United Airlines jet is de-iced at the George Bush International Airport in Houston.

A snow plow clears a parking lot in Columbus, Ohio, early Tuesday.

City worker Kaleb Love works to clean the ice from a fountain in Richardson, Texas on Tuesday.

Steam rises from the frozen Missouri River in Kansas City.

Bethany Fischer washes her face as her husband Nic lay down on a mattress in a Houston church on Tuesday. The couple lost power over their home.

Homes in Houston’s Westbury neighborhood were covered in snow on Monday, February 15.

James Derrick, who is homeless, comes out of his tent in Oklahoma City on Monday. The city had spent a record five days without climbing more than 20 degrees, and it was not expected to exceed that temperature until Thursday.

Motorists slow down in Indianapolis on Monday.

On Monday, a city worker clears the sidewalks in South Bend, Indiana.

Austin, Texas is blanketed in snow Monday.

Eithan Colindres wears a winter coat indoors after losing power at his family’s Houston apartment on Monday.

Two women cross Main Street as snow falls in Bowling Green, Ohio on Monday.

A boy feeds his pigs in St. Joe, Arkansas, Monday.

Ice covers a road sign in Midland, Texas on Monday.

Kirk Caudill pellets the snow in Louisville, Kentucky.

Vehicles clear the ice at Nashville International Airport in Tennessee on Monday.

Crews unload snow they removed from the streets of Oklahoma City.

People help a motorist stranded in Oklahoma City on Monday.

People walk on a snowy road in Austin on Monday.

Men shovel ice and snow outside stores in Louisville, Ky. On Monday.

A few cars drive through San Angelo, Texas on Sunday, February 14.

People walk into a Covid-19 test site in Seattle on Saturday, February 13. Seattle reported over 11 inches of snow on the weekend, its maximum since January 1972.

Harrison Walsh skis at Seattle’s Pike Place Market on Saturday.

Cars drive along Interstate 705 as snow falls in Tacoma, Wash. On Saturday.