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Veteran dies from hypothermia while looking for oxygen device after power outage in winter storm

Hey had all this drug around the house with so he could breathe. Tony Anderson is holding the two that connects to her husband’s oxygen machine, a machine run by electricity. This is great if you got electricity, but if you don’t have electricity that’s worthless, it’s worthless. When they lost power, his machine stopped working. Toni’s husband, Andy Anderson, was a Vietnam veteran. It’s there where he encountered Agent Orange, got COPD and needed this machine. As the hours went by, her husband struggled to breathe. We just thought the power to get back on with another power could be out for days like it was all the while a pipe burst, sending water everywhere. And he worked to get a generator, going to power his oxygen machine with no luck, and then went to the truck for a device he had there that supplied oxygen. Not long after that, his wife checked on him, went out there. He had no response. Hey was already cold, and he was looked like he had tried to start getting out of the truck. He was laid over the console in one leg, was out of the truck, and he died from hypothermia have had his oxygen. Had the power had not been off, I think he would have still been here with me Right now, after 30 years of marriage, Toni’s husband is gone just like I’ve been doing all week. I think of something I want to say to him and I’ll turn. He’s he’s not there, Help me, want to talk to him. He’s not there. With the home that needs repair and the loss of her husband, Tony’s family has started to go fund me to help with expenses. Now she mourns the death of her husband. A death she says could have been avoided if the system hadn’t failed and then he’s gonna be missed. He’s gonna be missed terribly. Marla Carter, ABC, 13 Eyewitness News

Veteran dies from hypothermia while looking for oxygen device after power outage in winter storm

Last week’s winter weather knocked out power for millions of people in Texas, including a Vietnam veteran who relied on a breathing machine.”We just thought the power would get back on,” Toni Anderson told KTRK. “We didn’t know the power would be out for days like it was.”Toni’s husband, Andy, had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.After the power went out Andy’s machine stopped working and as the hours went by he struggled to breath.KTRK reports Andy tried to get a generator on, but he was unsuccessful. He then went to his truck to grab an oxygen device that he had.Toni went to check on her husband of 30 years.”I went out there. He had no response. He was already cold. It looked like he was trying to get out of the truck,” Toni said.Andy died of hypothermia.”Had he had his oxygen, had the power not been off, I think he would have still been here with me right now,” said Toni. “He’s going to be missed. He’s going to be missed terribly.”Watch the video above for more on this story.

CROSBY, Texas (Video by KTRK via CNN) —

Last week’s winter weather knocked out power for millions of people in Texas, including a Vietnam veteran who relied on a breathing machine.

“We just thought the power would get back on,” Toni Anderson told KTRK. “We didn’t know the power would be out for days like it was.”

Toni’s husband, Andy, had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

After the power went out Andy’s machine stopped working and as the hours went by he struggled to breath.

KTRK reports Andy tried to get a generator on, but he was unsuccessful. He then went to his truck to grab an oxygen device that he had.

Toni went to check on her husband of 30 years.

“I went out there. He had no response. He was already cold. It looked like he was trying to get out of the truck,” Toni said.

Andy died of hypothermia.

“Had he had his oxygen, had the power not been off, I think he would have still been here with me right now,” said Toni. “He’s going to be missed. He’s going to be missed terribly.”

Watch the video above for more on this story.