Texas Power Outages

[WHITT]

Hundreds of thousands without power in Dallas area, DFW airport shutdown, 12 thousand flights cancelled.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-winter-storm-shutters-dallas-fort-worth-airport/story?id=82646548


Abbott GUARANTEED no power outages.

[SheltieLover]

1. 120k out here

Abbott belongs in prison.

[dalton99a]

2. Power plants should have used more duct tape

Link to tweet

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

9. 👍🏼

[dchill]

22. THAT'S worth a thread!

[fightforfreedom]

3. The power does not go out in Texas because of ice storms.

It goes out because Republican politicians are corrupt, incompetent, foolish, uncaring and stupid.

[CaptainTruth]

20. +100

[Stinky The Clown]

4. To be honest, Abbot said they were possible from weather causes, but guaranteed no grid-caused outag

[WHITT]

6. It's Early

[Rebl2]

11. Well

I imagine the people won’t really care if it’s the grid or downed power lines. Hopefully they will put the blame on him, but I doubt they will.
We had a very bad ice storm 20 years ago this month I believe. Thousands without power, some for a couple of weeks. The power company started a tree trimming program and they still have it today. It seems to have helped. We haven’t had such a widespread outage since.

[liberalmuse]

5. I spoke with one of our distrubutors

They were closing up because power outages were already starting. This was a few hours ago, too.

[rogue emissary]

7. Hope it causes him to lose like Bush's "Read my lips, no new taxes" line.

[ancianita]

8. Let's see if Texans can beat TX election rigging and vote Abbott out in November.

Or Texans will be stuck with him for third term.

[monkeyman1]

10. Abbott better hope they have that " no -lynching law " ?

[tclambert]

12. Do you mean to say they didn't fix the power grid after the last cold snap caused blackouts?

Are some people incapable of learning?

I'm just kidding. I know the answer is the same as before. It would cost utilities money to fix the grid, and they jacked up prices last time (way, way up) and turned it into a source of profit. Sure, some people died (between 150 and 700), but businesses profited! Why would they want to change that?

P.S. How serious is this? Has Ted Cruz fled to Cancun yet?

[not fooled]

13. How dumb do you have to be

to vote for this tool, again, after what happened last winter?

I guess we'll find out.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Is he high? Does he think we're stupid

From the article in the OP:

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned Thursday, "We are dealing with one of the most significant icing events ... in at least several decades."

At least several decades? It hasn't even been a full 365 days since last year's MEGAFREEZE. How was that not an "icing event", or did he think we just forgot about it?

[C Moon]

15. Abbott will blame it on President Biden, somehow. nt

[durablend]

16. Of course

"If he hadn't stopped building the pipeline this never would've happened!"

[Rhiannon12866]

17. He had his chance, vote him out!

[kairos12]

18. Governor MAGA will say stay warm

by burning books.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. perfect!

[dchill]

21. Once again, "no one could have foreseen..."