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RealityBasedNewYorkr

(119 posts) Tue Feb 16, 2021, 11:40 PM Feb 2021

I am from the government and I am here to help you turn your power back on

....is a sentence that exactly ZERO Texans would perceive as “terrifying” right now, despite Reagan’s famous hyperbole.

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I am from the government and I am here to help you turn your power back on (Original Post) RealityBasedNewYorkr Feb 2021 OP

We've had our share of bad weather here in New Mexico during the past week. Through it all abqtommy Feb 2021 #1

Yup I think so -- like IL. nt live love laugh Feb 2021 #3

Ya scared me for a second there. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #2

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

1. We've had our share of bad weather here in New Mexico during the past week. Through it all

Reply to RealityBasedNewYorkr (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2021, 11:52 PM

Feb 2021

our electric power has stayed on. I haven't even seen a flicker. I wonder if the fact that we
have strong Democratic state and local governments has anything to do with that.

live love laugh

(13,101 posts)

3. Yup I think so -- like IL. nt

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 17, 2021, 01:02 AM

Feb 2021

sheshe2

(83,746 posts)

2. Ya scared me for a second there.

Reply to RealityBasedNewYorkr (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2021, 11:53 PM

Feb 2021

I was thinking someone went to the orange man and told him he could get his power turned back on. I kid you not, for one brief moment that thought shot through my head.

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