340K without power amid frigid temperatures in Texas; 2,300 flights canceled, at least 6 dead
Source: USATODAY
Texans in more than 340,000 homes and businesses braced for near-freezing temperatures without power Wednesday and more than 2,300 flights were canceled amid an unrelenting blast of treacherous, icy conditions and brutal cold that has left at least six dead.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2023/02/01/ice-storm-texas-arkansas-tennessee-wednesday-weather-updates/11150433002/
The Lone Star State continues to have problems with its utility companies:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fallout-texas-energy-crisis-left-millions-dark-continues/story?id=76200844.
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C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)keep suffering from power outages year after year?
AZLD4Candidate
(5,698 posts)We had blackouts sometimes during thunderstorms but only for a few minutes.
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)I was in a 7 day power outage in Maryland in July 2012 after a derecho storm. Call centers in India refused to believe that large swaths of an American state would have no power for 7 days.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,023 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)Thats just the cost of doin bidness in Texas.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)
6 dead is a rounding error.
PortTack
(32,773 posts)Whats next with climate change causing worse scenarios? Whats it gonna take Texas?
Initech
(100,080 posts)It's insane that Greg Abbott and Ron Desantis keep getting elected despite those of us who don't live in MAGA Q crazy land hating their guts.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are having an effect. After a few decades of building, few now deny climate change is happening. To avoid accepting the need to counter it, they moved to embracing climate change as not a big problem. And here they are, denying the next, unstoppable stage of lessons. This one's in their own faces, though.
C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)If you find it, you'll get a chuckle out of it (although the Thread is a serious topic).
"Hey, Needlemeyer!"
Initech
(100,080 posts)Definitely a classic movie!
AllaN01Bear
(18,247 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)Someone tell Aunt Lydia
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)but not Texas of course. They prefer to use their own interconnection with spectacularly bad results.
C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)Thank you for the map. But the Astros won the World Series!
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/
C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)This is how Repub America works.
DFW
(54,403 posts)I can only hope that a few Abbott voters are suffering with the rest.
Im confident Beto would not have ignored the precedent.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)It was premeditated.
DFW
(54,403 posts)And we both know it.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)By voting for morons to run their state.
mwb970
(11,360 posts)Wherever republicans are in charge, living is tough. And the people in these hellholes keep voting for republicans. So, backwards and stupid.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)Has made sure it would be a shithole state.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)
expecting different results?
Oh right; voting Republican!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)piddyprints
(14,643 posts)They had a chance to elect a governor who gives a damn.
NJCher
(35,684 posts)Business associate from here in NJ used to have to travel to TX frequently.
He said that every time he rented a car it was tuned to rw hate radio. Every single time.
JohnSJ
(92,217 posts)will be more interested in Abbott blaming Biden for trump caused non-documented crossings than this
machoneman
(4,007 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)gab13by13
(21,359 posts)I was planning on babysitting for my daughter this week because she and her company execs had business meetings scheduled in Dallas all week. Daughter called me last Monday and told me her company canceled the Dallas meetings, they did it Zoom.
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)anything to avoid winterizing their perennially failing power grid. Because that would be socialism.