The owner of a store in Houston called Gallery Furniture is letting people stay overnight to get out of the cold. He goes by the name “Mattress Mack,” and he’s known for this kind of thing. He also used his stores as shelters after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. And the same year, he served Thanksgiving to 5,000 people.
Owner Jim McIngvale collects trash inside his Gallery Furniture store which opened as a shelter Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Houston. Millions in Texas still had no power after a historic snowfall and single-digit temperatures created a surge of demand for electricity to warm up homes unaccustomed to such extreme lows, buckling the state’s power grid and causing widespread blackouts. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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