Chuck Pryor, the funeral director of Pryority Funeral Experience, checks on his funeral home as the state of Texas experiences widespread power outages and record-breaking temperatures during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Houston, Texas, U.S., February 16, 2021. Pryor said he had never been as busy as during the pandemic. The deaths the funeral home handled in 2020 were more than double those he would see in a normal year. "I do pace myself and I do turn people down because I can only do so much." REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare SEARCH "FUNERALS O'HARE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES