Houston family who lost home in 2021 Texas winter storm bracing for another freeze

(Photo courtesy of Darla Mufti) HOUSTON - With the freezing temperatures making its way to Texas, some residents are worried about history repeating itself with another winter storm.

And for one Houston family, who lost their home in a fire during 2021's Big Freeze, the deja vu is getting unavoidable. Texas Winter Storm: What the Houston area can expectIt was one of the worst things you can imagine that happened to Darla Mufti and her family in February 2021.

At the time, she, her husband, three children, and mother were living in San Antonio during the winter storm dealing with rolling blackouts and camping out in the living room, so when the power finally came back on, things seemed like they were going to be OK. "We all got in the car, and we rode around the neighborhood showing the children the snow, and stuff like that," Mufti said. "And then we got back to the house and everybody started taking their mattresses to their rooms and were excited you know?

Because we could sleep in our rooms at night and I had went [sic] to my room took a shower was so thankful for hot water, finally."One of the worst things you can imagine happened to the Mufti family during the Winter Storm in 2021 and after ERCOT issued a weather watch through Sunday, they're worried about history repeating itself.Their luck had not yet turned, however, and the family was in for a rude, frightening awakening."I was laying there, and I heard my 12-year-old, she said ‘I smell smoke, dad' and he said, ‘girl, you don’t smell no smoke' [sic] and like two seconds later, he was like, ‘Oh, I smell it,'" Mufti explained. "And he was like ‘everybody get out,' and he started hollering for everyone to get out, and he was like, 'This is not a drill!