This is how cold it is at my Apartment.

[Fla Dem]

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Few comments from Canadians and from northern US states that are not very sympathetic.

[SlogginThroughIt]

1. If that is happening....

If that is happening you may be in for some serious electrical issues and sheetrock/stud/joist mold issues.

I would be REAL careful with electricity usage if I had icicles hanging from fixtures like that.

[NurseJackie]

6. That's a broken pipe.

[SlogginThroughIt]

8. Correct.

And looks like electricity on in another room. About 6 feet away!

[SidDithers]

2. I read about 40 comments and didn't see one that wasn't sympathetic...nt

Sid

[Fla Dem]

14. Well here are just a few. Not totally dissing Thomas Black's situation, but making light of it.

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[Thekaspervote]

3. One would have thought property owners would have been more proactive in preventing

Burst water pipes...like drain the pipes before they burst

[Mariana]

17. I lived in Texas for 16 years.

Every single time it got cold there, thousands of people's pipes froze. My plumber would almost pull his hair out because he would warn his customers, and tell them what to do, and the warnings would be on the front page of the newspapers and on the TV news and the Weather Channel and everywhere, and still the same thing happened every single time.

[BusyBeingBest]

21. It's what I can't figure out either, after watching so many videos of

people with waterfalls and gushers and floods inside their homes--at the very least, if keeping your taps open didn't keep your pipes from freezing/bursting, then shut off your water, for God's sake--why flood your house? It's the difference between some residual water in your pipes leaking out vs. geysers.

[MineralMan]

4. Burst pipes above the ceiling.

Big problems coming!

[PirateRo]

5. That's a nightmare event - broken water pipes

It helps to leave the house closed up and leaving the taps all open to drip.

If the cold is prolonged it will help delay the pipes bursting. It helps to wrap the pipes, too, in that foamy stuff.

[marmar]

7. In the northern states and Canada our infrastructure is designed to cope with this.

[roamer65]

9. For the most part, yes.

We still have our here and there issues when we get this polar crap, but the systems stay running.

[LakeArenal]

11. We have. But no one is fully prepared for days without food or water.

Not everyone can afford a generator even in the north.

Frozen pipes will occur even if they have survived other winter ice outs.

As much as I hate the Texas government and about 47% of the folks,
They are suffering and half the residents don’t deserve it.

[maryellen99]

15. Back in March 2017 the Detroit area had a freak windstorm that left over a million without power

We didn’t have power that Wednesday(it came back for 12 hours and went out again the next morning)and then Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon. It was awful. We spent our days in the car plus at night we slept fully clothed in our house. We ended up having to go to a hotel.

[NutmegYankee]

19. Rural areas without power usually don't have water.

No electricity = no well pump. People here have emergency supplies on hand because it happens often. New England is a giant forest with little fields carved out here or there. There's ALWAYS a tree to fall on the power line. And we have HAD to prepare because Mother Nature fucking hates New England and just beats the snot out of us every year.

I have a generator and transfer switch to bring the furnace up, but also keep 10 gallons of kerosene for a Dyna-glo convection heater. If that fails in winter, I drain the plumbing, pour antifreeze in the toilets, and flee.

[SidDithers]

18. We're also tied into a larger electrical grid...

so that effects of extreme conditions in one area can be mitigated by supply from a much broader area.

Republican governments in Texas chose to isolate their electrical grid from the rest of North America. It was a deliberate act to not be part of the larger grids.

This utilities failure is entirely on them.

Sid

[smirkymonkey]

10. What a disaster!

This isn't going to end when it warms up either. It may even get worse. Many of these buildings will be completely destroyed. They just aren't built for this kind of weather.

[lunasun]

12. More from TBgg 😳 the second video wth?

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[Fla Dem]

13. Someone needed to shut off the main water valve to stop the water.

Apartment building owners are in for a HUGE repair bill and loss of tenants. I would think entire building will have to be either torn down or gutted. So much damage in Texas, so many people will be displaced. So horrible especially while there is still the pandemic. Just one thing disaster on top of another.

[llmart]

16. I wonder how much will be covered by insurance (if they have it).

I also wonder how some insurance companies will try to weasel out of paying. Plus, whatever they do have to pay out, they'll just recoop by jacking up their rates to everyone.

[LakeArenal]

20. Beto For Governor. ❤️🇺🇸❤️

That is all.