But I thought that after the disastrous winter a few years ago, Texas politicians would take action to ensure the reliability of their power grid? How could this be?
Oh, wait, their leadership spent all their time engaged in stupid culture-war bullshit like bussing migrants and deliberately drowning them with barbed wire and passing any number of bills that didn’t look out for the well being of their constituents. Holy fuck! I’m so disillusioned. I never thought in a million years that this would happen again.
You reap what you sow, you fucks. And to all the progressive people in Texas who voted against the shits that did this to you, my heart goes out to you.
I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I’ve grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they’ve had.
This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
There are no regulations they’re circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn’t help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.
Let’s wait and see how their recovery process goes compared to the other states it affected. Then you might have a point. I predict it’s going to go poorly and probably there will be rate hikes for the captured customers, while the politicians pocket whatever they can squeeze out of the federal government.
Interesting take. Noted.
Texan here, it was pretty bad. I was at my job and had to go over tornado protocol with everyone. One of my coworkers had their garage destroyed by the pressure and/or wind and is without power for weeks. My work was out 5 minutes.
How often does this happen in your area?
Not often, I hadn’t even heard about the storm and suddenly it was raining sideways. We’re more used to flooding multiple times a year, since we’re always on the dirty side of hurricanes and not the wind side.
Worse will be coming. Much worse.
They really went for the heartstrings by showing a damaged strip club. 😔
I’m actually devastated
The former strip club in this town just got torn down, but before it did, someone spraypainted, “we will never forget you, [stripper names].” on the wall. I wish I had taken a picture.
No, not the
saloontiddy bar!
Bet they pull themselves out of this by their bootstraps and don’t ask for any federal aid!
You got this privately owned power grid! Prove us all wrong that you suck and the people who vote in the republicans who allow this to continue have the intelligence of a bag of Quikrete.
Houston has more Democratic citizens than Republican. Their current mayor is a Democrat, and they voted for the Democratic nominated President in the last four elections. Austin is very similar. They’re blue islands in the red state, living under the oppressive reign of Abbott.
By all means fuck the other half of the state under voter suppression right!? Houston is so blue that Harris County is the primary reason for their voter suppression. Do go on with your generalizations that make you feel strong and powerful by lumping everyone in a large geographical region together. Especially great character to do so on the premise of people’s suffering.
If you actually read the article, it says they are receiving federal aid
That’s the joke.
Looks like mother nature took a big ol’ bite outta that building. Monch.
