'This Is Extremely Dangerous': Texans in Peril at Home, on Road

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) Texans awoke Monday morning to discover that warnings of rolling power outages had escalated into hours-long blackouts. Instead of a chilly 30 minutes without TV, cue frantic calls to elderly relatives, last-minute hotel bookings, shopping trips for propane canisters and fielding emails from the car.

As the day unfolded, the scale of the crisis gripping the state threatened to take on a darker dimension. The National Guard was deployed to get old people into warming shelters. All air travel in and out of Houston was shut, and Covid-19 vaccination efforts faced potential disruption, with city officials racing to utilize more than 8,000 vaccine doses after a storage facility lost back-up power.

“It was only supposed to be for one to two hours, which seemed manageable,” said Isha Elhence, a 26-year-old Dallas resident who lost power around 2 a.m. Monday, summing up the general mood of haplessness. “Now it’s kind of indefinite with no updates, so we’re unsure of what we’re supposed to be doing.” ................(more)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-15/-this-is-extremely-dangerous-texans-in-peril-at-home-on-road

[keithbvadu2]

1. North Dakota Weather Alert (warning XX X )

North Dakota Weather Alert (warning XX X )
My kind of weather guy ...
Native American Indian weather broadcast straight off of a reservation TV station in North Dakota:
Finally, a weather
report that doesn't take 10 minutes to explain with multiple graphics
and words that you have no clue as to what theymean. This is direct and
to the point!
North Dakota Weather Alert! Stay Inside

[tclambert]

2. This alert will expire in May!

[niyad]

4. Dear Goddess, that was hysterical.

[sarge43]

6. Welcome to North Dakota ... in winter.

Leave while you still can feel your balls.

[Marie Marie]

11. Gotta love the straight talk.

[HUAJIAO]

12. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Made my night !!!

[Cozmo]

3. In the 80's Texans favorite motto "Drive 75 and freeze a Yankee"

Then they faced an oil glut. Not too forward thinking, huh?

[nakocal]

5. Power outages in Texas, thank the republican party

That refuses to invest in infrastructure.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Stay home for a day or two. Jeesus H.

[joewicker_TX]

8. And this is where the fallacy of the Oil $$$ falls flat...

After all the kumbaya about the almighty oil industry, we are left with people freezing to death in their homes. With the INSANE gobs of money the oil industry brought into the Texas budget, this is the shit show we're left with: the most fragmented, most dysfunctional, and most inadequate electric grid in the modern word. Our infrastructure as a whole is garbage and this Republican run state is 100% to blame. Abbott is a complete tool and the people in this Godforsaken state continue to vote in opposition to their own best interests. So Abbott can now take credit for killing people with his inadequate COVID response and now this...pathetic.

[Larissa]

9. Dress in layers, including socks

If you don't have cold weather gloves use socks to keep hands warm. (Could use Bernie's mittens.) Folks can cuddle up in the same beds to take advantage of human body heat wearing the double/triple clothing. Keep hydrated -- not with booze! -- cold air can dry out the body.


Russia got hit with a ton of snow:

https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/331695-russia-winter-dress-minus50

[Woodwizard]

10. We lose power for days several times a year.

In the Catskills, and over a week several times in the last few years. Our population density is not high priority.

[MontanaMama]

14. I shoveled 4 times today.

Then, we got the forklift stuck in the parking lot at work after shoveling the lot twice. I could use some spring.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. 9 deg.-F in Dallas at 9:30pm cst with low of 2 deg-F tonight. Low of 10-deg. in Houston.

Texas healthcare, electrical and plumbing services will be overloaded for weeks and I hope plenty of federal help and charity assistance is on the way. Exposure to CV-19 will increase as people become even more careless. In addition, severe colds, flu and pneumonia will threaten everyone.

As Molly Ivins used to say: "Texas politicians take care of bidness" and that's all they take care of. It's amazing how they can bullshit their way out of accountability every time an emergency hits.

A little more Molly for a chuckle in these dreadful times:

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day
Molly Ivins

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.
Molly Ivins

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.
Molly Ivins

All the best and DU hugs to our friends down there.......

Some more Molly Ivins quotes: https://www.azquotes.com/author/7231-Molly_Ivins