340K without power amid frigid temperatures in Texas; 2,300 flights canceled, at least 6 dead

[C0RI0LANUS]

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/

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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.

[C0RI0LANUS]

2. Hah! What "Shit-hole country" allows hundreds of thousands of its citizens to

keep suffering from power outages year after year?

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. I've lived in five Asian countries, including poor countries like Thailand, and that never happened

We had blackouts sometimes during thunderstorms but only for a few minutes.

[IronLionZion]

29. People in Asia don't believe our power problems in the US

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]

12. But we have freedumb in Texas - Greg Abbott

[LudwigPastorius]

10. 6 dead?

That’s just the cost of doin’ bidness in Texas.

[PJMcK]

27. In Texas...

… 6 dead is a rounding error.

[PortTack]

3. But they voted for the same guy that brought them to this the last time!

What’s next with climate change causing worse scenarios? What’s it gonna take Texas?

[Initech]

34. I don't know but we really got to do something about the right wing echo chamber.

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]

39. Verrry slow learners, but years of building climate disasters

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]

4. I asked the same question months ago about Texas-- what's it going to take?

[Initech]

35. It's like that scene from Animal House.

[C0RI0LANUS]

36. Funny twice, Initech, because I also used an Animal House scene for an earlier post today.

If you find it, you'll get a chuckle out of it (although the Thread is a serious topic).

"Hey, Needlemeyer!"

[Initech]

38. Nice!

Definitely a classic movie!

[AllaN01Bear]

5. current power grid map

https://poweroutage.us/

[SouthernDem4ever]

24. Looks like Arkansas is in 2nd place

Someone tell Aunt Lydia

[IronLionZion]

30. The non-Texas states have some resilience from the Eastern Interconnection

but not Texas of course. They prefer to use their own interconnection with spectacularly bad results.

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. And there are 27,229 homeless people "living" in Texas, 3,932 in Oklahoma

Thank you for the map. But the Astros won the World Series!

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/

[C0RI0LANUS]

7. and 14,014 homeless people in Arkansas.

[Duppers]

9. So sad that there'll be more dead by tomorrow.

This is how Repub America works.

[DFW]

11. Third year in a row. No one can say it is unprecedented".

I can only hope that a few Abbott voters are suffering with the rest.

I‘m confident Beto would not have ignored the precedent.

[2naSalit]

21. One might almost think...

It was premeditated.

[DFW]

23. There is certainly no love lost between Dallas and Abbott

And we both know it.

[SouthernDem4ever]

25. You might be right, Texas voters have that abused syndrome and keep asking for it

By voting for morons to run their state.

[mwb970]

13. Texas is just another backwards red state.

Wherever republicans are in charge, living is tough. And the people in these hellholes keep voting for republicans. So, backwards and stupid.

[2naSalit]

19. Abbutt...

Has made sure it would be a shithole state.

[raccoon]

14. Thanks, Abbott.

[EarthFirst]

15. What do you call doing the same thing over and over again...

…expecting different results?

Oh right; voting Republican!

[Hortensis]

40. Owning the libs, and on the plus side the same results work for that.

[piddyprints]

16. Rinse and repeat.

They had a chance to elect a governor who gives a damn.

[NJCher]

17. Brainwashed

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]

18. Betto warned Texans what would happen, and they still voted for Abbott. The media of course

will be more interested in Abbott blaming Biden for trump caused non-documented crossings than this

[machoneman]

20. Hey, I noted Austin is the hardest hit. Maybe on orders from Abbott's GOP? I wonder.....

[2naSalit]

22. Wouldn't put it past him.

[gab13by13]

26. On the economic front,

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]

28. Texas GOP will blame windmills and nonexistent green new deal

anything to avoid winterizing their perennially failing power grid. Because that would be socialism.

[C0RI0LANUS]

31. Wasn't the Texas Chamber of Commerce (or somebody) trying to lure hi-tech business from California?

[Journeyman]

32. To be expected: That Lone Star is their Yelp rating . . .

[Martin68]

33. Ah, yes, the vaunted Texas grid back in the headlines.

[friend of a friend]

37. I would hope that the people would buy the best propane generator they can afford.