Eyewitness News first brought you this story on Tuesday when we met Leslie Deleon at a southwest Houston warming center.
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Deleon and her children, ages 7 to 15, said they had been living without power for the last month and a half and owed over $2,000 to her electricity provider.
She told us she had to choose between feeding her kids and keeping the lights on.
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The single mother said she had been trying to figure it out on her own, but when the temperatures dropped to below freezing, she reached out to a church for a warm place to stay. She was directed to the Bayland Community Center, a warming station opened by Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones.
After seeing Deleon's story, an ABC13 viewer offered to front her bill.
Briones posted a picture on X, formerly Twitter, of the family and their two cats, saying they would finally get their electricity back thanks to the generous donor.