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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:29 AM

flying_wahini (3,027 posts)

11 year old boy found dead after freezing cold night

Source: KHOU.com

CONROE, Texas — A family in Conroe is mourning the loss of their 11-year-old boy during the devastating winter storm. The family says Christian Pavon was found dead Tuesday after a brutally cold night without power inside their mobile home.
Christian was a 6th-grader filled with lots of life and joy, his family says.

Read more: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/11-year-old-found-dead-after-freezing-cold-night-in-a-conroe-mobile-home-with-no-power/285-4781bcb9-6643-4224-8b5b-c1fc5c725b61

So shockingly sad that people died for lack of heat in this country.

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27 replies	Author	Time	Post
11 year old boy found dead after freezing cold night (Original post)	flying_wahini	Feb 20	OP
It's just beginning, I'm afraid the death toll will be huge. Trumpism is deadly.	rickyhall	Feb 20	#1
This isn't Trumpism. This is American Conservatism.	Gore1FL	Feb 20	#3
Same thing.	rickyhall	Feb 20	#4
Certainly, to a degree	Gore1FL	Feb 20	#8
BINGO! (n/t)	OldBaldy1701E	Feb 20	#15
As with virtually everything he has ever been connected too	quakerboy	Feb 20	#21
You're right.	BobTheSubgenius	Feb 20	#23
So terrible and heartbreaking	Tumbulu	Feb 20	#2
He sacrificed his life to keep the Texas power grid free of federal regulation	DBoon	Feb 20	#5
To hell with that	OldBaldy1701E	Feb 20	#16
Omg. Peace to the family	riversedge	Feb 20	#6
Wow.. poor little thing..	Cha	Feb 20	#7
I don't know. I think a closer family would have	LuvLoogie	Feb 20	#9
I think you are being unfair to the stepdad	Big Blue Marble	Feb 20	#13
I'm not slamming the step dad	LuvLoogie	Feb 20	#25
I thought similar stuff but	questionseverything	Feb 20	#26
Yeah, sure..	denbot	Feb 20	#14
the fuck???	dhill926	Feb 20	#24
So horrible--and preventable.	McCamy Taylor	Feb 20	#10
Second guessing is human nature.	maxsolomon	Feb 20	#20
Poor little guy 😢	ailsagirl	Feb 20	#11
Fuck Republicans..	denbot	Feb 20	#12
RIP little dude	twodogsbarking	Feb 20	#17
How will the depraved propagandists blame this on liberals?	Yeehah	Feb 20	#18
This is just horrible and did not have to happen. So very sad.	cayugafalls	Feb 20	#19
Stalin was right.	BobTheSubgenius	Feb 20	#22
we need to end deregulation, a failed ronald raygun policy and privitization	AllaN01Bear	Feb 20	#27

Response to flying_wahini (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:33 AM

rickyhall (3,581 posts)

1. It's just beginning, I'm afraid the death toll will be huge. Trumpism is deadly.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:41 AM

Gore1FL (18,127 posts)

3. This isn't Trumpism. This is American Conservatism.

These aren't Trump policies. These are Republican polices in place long before Trump.

Trump isn't the creator. He is the product of decades of this bullshit.

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Response to Gore1FL (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:44 AM

rickyhall (3,581 posts)

4. Same thing.

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Response to rickyhall (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:07 AM

Gore1FL (18,127 posts)

8. Certainly, to a degree

My point was as awful as Trump corrupted the GOP, The GOP suck terribly before him.

This horror is less trump and more GOP.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 09:12 AM

OldBaldy1701E (1,096 posts)

15. BINGO! (n/t)

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:18 PM

quakerboy (12,732 posts)

21. As with virtually everything he has ever been connected too

Regardless of his personal extreme lack of any useful contribution, he has Slapped his name up on it in BIG letters.

He didnt make it. But its got his brand all over it.

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Response to Gore1FL (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:44 PM

BobTheSubgenius (8,653 posts)

23. You're right.

Not only is he not capable of coming up with a coherent (as in, understood by other, English-speaking people) political philosophy, this streak of greed and power lust has run through the body politic forever, and putting an "ism" of any kind on it is just rebranding.

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Response to flying_wahini (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:41 AM

Tumbulu (5,367 posts)

2. So terrible and heartbreaking

And I agree, I am sure there will be more and a huge Covid spike.

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Response to flying_wahini (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:50 AM

DBoon (18,114 posts)

5. He sacrificed his life to keep the Texas power grid free of federal regulation

Source: The Houston Chronicle

James Osborne

Feb. 17, 2021
Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 9:53 a.m.

WASHINGTON - Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state’s power grid.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Perry-says-Texans-wiling-to-suffer-blackouts-to-15956705.php

Maybe someone should ask Perry how many more children should die for the "freedom" of an unregulated power grid?

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Response to DBoon (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 09:16 AM

OldBaldy1701E (1,096 posts)

16. To hell with that

make that BDFJ (Big Dumb Frat Jock) bury each and every one of them! I also hope that *any* aid they get, they have to pay for... dearly...maybe then they will stop listening to those rich asshats who keep preaching about 'unregulated power'. (If they have not now, they never will, but one can hope I suppose).

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Response to flying_wahini (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 12:52 AM

riversedge (60,860 posts)

6. Omg. Peace to the family

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:02 AM

Cha (270,235 posts)

7. Wow.. poor little thing..

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:30 AM

LuvLoogie (5,554 posts)

9. I don't know. I think a closer family would have

seen him through. His mom and step dad were there.

I think a biological Dad would have bundled up that little guy between him and his Mom.

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Response to LuvLoogie (Reply #9)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:53 AM

Big Blue Marble (4,260 posts)

13. I think you are being unfair to the stepdad

who checked the children in night. They were all in the same room in mobile
home. I think the issues are the temperature and the lack of heat.

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Response to Big Blue Marble (Reply #13)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 04:21 PM

LuvLoogie (5,554 posts)

25. I'm not slamming the step dad

I just know my wife and I would have shared blankets and body heat with our daughters.

It's more how I would be second guessing myself as a parent.

It kind of doesn't matter who's fault it is when your freezing to death.

I remain condemning of the Texas GOP government. I just personally find tragedy in what if I didn't take that step.

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Response to LuvLoogie (Reply #25)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:54 PM

questionseverything (6,973 posts)

26. I thought similar stuff but

I think it was more they didn’t realize it was necessary since they weren’t used to freezing weather and no power

Living up north all my life we know sharing body heat is the best defense

So sad they didn’t realize

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Response to LuvLoogie (Reply #9)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 04:42 AM

denbot (8,900 posts)

14. Yeah, sure..

Thanks for your input..

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 03:34 PM

dhill926 (12,211 posts)

24. the fuck???

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Response to flying_wahini (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:10 AM

McCamy Taylor (19,240 posts)

10. So horrible--and preventable.

For those who dont know Conroe is just north of Houston and no one ever expected to freeze to death inside a dwelling outside of Houston. So dont blame the family for being unprepared.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 11:57 AM

maxsolomon (24,070 posts)

20. Second guessing is human nature.

You yourself said it was preventable.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:38 AM

ailsagirl (21,087 posts)

11. Poor little guy 😢

Poor family

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:51 AM

denbot (8,900 posts)

12. Fuck Republicans..

Fuck their leadership, fuck their rubes.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 10:54 AM

twodogsbarking (893 posts)

17. RIP little dude

it wasn't your fault.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 11:21 AM

Yeehah (2,135 posts)

18. How will the depraved propagandists blame this on liberals?

The sickening evil of "conservatism" takes another young life.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 11:25 AM

cayugafalls (4,527 posts)

19. This is just horrible and did not have to happen. So very sad.

To bad the media won't point the fingers where they need to be.

Fucking Texas...

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Response to flying_wahini (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:40 PM

BobTheSubgenius (8,653 posts)

22. Stalin was right.

It's the stories of disaster in microcosm that really make it hit home. I know that wasn't his quote, but this is an extension of it.

It's far harder to bear the death of one child so personified than it is to hear about nameless, faceless people summed up as "thousands," or whatever the number is.

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 06:01 PM

AllaN01Bear (5,596 posts)

27. we need to end deregulation, a failed ronald raygun policy and privitization

is another .

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