Since freezing temperatures hit Texas, causing power outages and water shortages across the state, many have struggled to keep warm, wash, drink, and even flush their toilets. With neighbors in dire straights, nurse Emily Grigsby passed on the opportunity to leave her cold-stricken Austin neighborhood in favor of staying behind to help. Speaking to The Epoch Times via social media, the 39-year-old mom of two reflected, “Above all, may we be reminded of the importance to love thy neighbor!” At the peak of Winter Storm Uri’s wrath upon Emily’s neighborhood, the power was out for 72 hours straight. On one of the first dark nights without power, Texas native Emily, her husband Will, and their kids made the most of it, playing piano and sleeping in a makeshift fort by the fireplace. “I started checking on my elderly neighbors once that 24-hour mark passed, and that’s when I found how dire …