Biden declares a winter emergency for Texas.

[Zorba]

That's leaf blower amount. 😉

My neighbor literally just pulled out a leaf blower.

 

[compcons]

My neighbor literally just pulled out a leaf blower.

That works like 5% of the time up here. It's usually too wet and heavy. Works for the light fluffy stuff okay.

 

[zzyzxroad]

6-14" projected for me. Yay.

Already got 2ft on the roof. Looks like I'm breaking out the roof rake.

I hear ya. It's going to dip down into the the low 50s tonight. Time to bust out my jacket.

 

[Pohemi]

Haha I get to see those small craft and tide advisories as well since I'm right on the fresh water sea that doesn't freeze in winter...but the temp is still below 0 lol

 

[soulcougher73]

We’re having planned 1 hour rolling blackouts in KC area due to the cold

 

[Wreckem]

We’re having planned 1 hour rolling blackouts in KC area due to the cold

Yeah the ten states north of Texas have started to hit the same problems Texas has had all day. So much of our generation is offline right now for various reasons. Some natural gas plants don’t have fuel to run right now.

Texas was supposed to have rolling blackouts but distribution companies had system failure and couldn’t get people back online or do rolling outages. Some people have been without power all day. Then you have where I’m at. We have power for 20 minutes and then down for 10.

 

[Leeea]

Texas was supposed to have rolling blackouts but distribution companies had system failure and couldn’t get people back online or do rolling outages. Some people have been without power all day. Then you have where I’m at. We have power for 20 minutes and then down for 10.

That is not a bad as I thought. At least that gives your furnace time to run a cycle.

 

[Wreckem]

There

That is not a bad as I thought. At least that gives your furnace time to run a cycle.

There are about 1.1million residents of Dallas county they haven’t had power for the majority of the day because the power distribution company has had system failures they have prevented them from doing proper rolling blackouts. I have coworkers that have had no power for 13 hours now.

Fortunately I live in an area that doesn’t use that distribution company and has its own coop.

 

[Leeea]

There are about 1.1million residents of Dallas county they haven’t had power for the majority of the day because the power distribution company has had system failures they have prevented them from doing proper rolling blackouts.

It is time to roll the national guard. Need to use forces from outside of Texas though.

Once the pipes start to freeze it gets ugly.

 

[Dulanic]

There


There are about 1.1million residents of Dallas county they haven’t had power for the majority of the day because the power distribution company has had system failures they have prevented them from doing proper rolling blackouts. I have coworkers that have had no power for 13 hours now.

Fortunately I live in an area that doesn’t use that distribution company and has its own coop.

Well that was the case, our coop just took us offline for a unknown amount of time. We were rolling brownouts till now. The supply has dropped all throughout the day.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

You'll notice he didn't withhold funds cuz they voted Trump.




KEEP THAT IN MIND YOU FUCKIN WHINY BITCH ASS CONSERVATIVES!!!

Keep on keepin' on with your partisan bickering. You don't at all resemble that of which you proclaim to hate.

Texas is perhaps the most diverse state in the entire US - but all you see is Yes/No/0/1/Red/Blue.

 

[Fenixgoon]

dp

 

[Fenixgoon]

Keep on keepin' on with your partisan bickering. You don't at all resemble that of which you proclaim to hate.

Texas is perhaps the most diverse state in the entire US - but all you see is Yes/No/0/1/Red/Blue.

More diverse in what ways, exactly, and compared to what other states?

The only reason this topic exists, of course, is because of republican bitching when the pandemic first hit, and how trump/kushner deliberately withheld aid because they thought the virus would only impact "blue states". So the goal of the thread isn't to point fingers at Texas, it's to point out the blatant hypocrisy of republicans (....in other news, water is wet) by highlighting Biden's competent governance

 

[brycejones]

More diverse in what ways, exactly, and compared to what other states?

The only reason this topic exists, of course, is because of republican bitching when the pandemic first hit, and how trump/kushner deliberately withheld aid because they thought the virus would only impact "blue states"

Well that and Trump's constant whining that people needed to show him more appreciation or he wouldn't approve their disaster requests. See CA wild fires.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

ERCOT shut off my fucking power in rolling blackouts, usually 45 minutes long, nine times since 2AM. Even all throughout the middle of day when it was nice and sunny and got up to 27. I'm loving the 5 inches of snow I got but holy shit I thought I was living in a first world nation in the US, not fucking Tijuana. Will definitely have my power shut off another ten times before it gets in the 30s tomorrow, no way Texas' shitty power grid can handle the nighttime low being 9 tonight in my area.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1361361083575975936

 

[SteveGrabowski]

You'll notice he didn't withhold funds cuz they voted Trump.




KEEP THAT IN MIND YOU FUCKIN WHINY BITCH ASS CONSERVATIVES!!!

So also I guess we're not seceding since Gov Hotwheels begged Biden for help?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

They don't have the equipment to handle it, either. Homeless people all across the affected region are in serious danger of dying, too.

Yep, twice a year we get this "where I'm from" macho blustering bullshit from citizens each proclaiming to the other side how wimpy they are for not tolerating X. The North rags on the South's handling of Snow Storms, while the South rags on the North's inability to handle a couple of days above 100.

Where I grew up in the South, there was no such thing as a Snow Plow. Whatever snow fell stayed there until it was compacted into ice, at which point it would remain for days on days. It was a massive hazard. When I moved up North, it became easy to see that many homes here were not equipped to handle 100+ days because they don't have air conditioning of any type installed. They basically become brick ovens in the summer.

And as a point to that, whenever it's extreme people still die, especially amongst the homeless populations. Chicago is already under several feet of snow, and while points counters will beat their chest that the core of Chicago will remain open, they won't bother to mention the poor suburbs, the homeless, the fringes, will become nearly inaccessible with nearly 4 feet of accumulated snow on the ground. The same way that after a week long heatwave in Georgia and Florida, people still die. There's still heatstrokes. There's still homeless untended to.

Extreme weather of any type is a danger and needs the fastest response possible and the acceptance of outside help to prevent as many deaths as possible. I'd rather people focused on that vs. the "unga dunga my dirt stronger than your dirt" bullshit.

 

[Leeea]

especially amongst the homeless populations

republicans do not consider homeless to be human beings.

Your undercutting your argument. You need to show how rich retired white people are going to die to get their attention.

 

[shortylickens]

So also I guess we're not seceding since Gov Hotwheels begged Biden for help?

literally one day after the emergency ends he'll be attacking Joe on twitter and The Floor.

 

[sportage]

Trump & Republicans: Where is global warming?

😁 It’s not the global warming, think of this as the wrath of god. 100 year blizzards and pandemics just don’t happen, not all at the same time unless a god is involved... and a really pissed god at that. Sometimes it takes god a little longer to get with it, like waiting so long to free the slaves from pharaohs Egypt, but eventually god makes it happen. Four years of Donald Trump was just too much for god to tolerate, but god was really pissed at the American voters for electing for Trump in the first place. And Trump was then allowed four full years, so that means the wrath of god will last at least four years. 2020 began the world wide pandemic, 2021 will be the blizzards, and holey moley just wait till Spring.... the floods. Then comes the Summertime, how about the record breaking heat wave across America? How does 130 degrees in Omaha sound, or 135 in Dallas? And you iOwa, you voted for Trump too, twice, so it’s 140 in the shade for you. Oh the humanity. Oh the crops. Oh the droughts. Oh the suntan lotion shortage. And what about the Fall? Well, don’t ask. You don’t want to know. Let’s just say if you own property in Arizona, you could be sitting on new ocean front views. Global warming is not what god hates, what god hates are republicans. Republicans and Trump’s. And god said, have a nice day....

 

[Pohemi]

I'd rather people focused on that vs. the "unga dunga my dirt stronger than your dirt" bullshit.

I agreed with the entire post until that last sentence.

Do you see or think that this is what government officials have been doing? The people in charge of handling the emergencies are not the couchjockey idiots typing on their PCs from their homes about how tough they are cuz blahblahblah.

I get what you mean, but that isn't what most of the people in charge of handling these situations are doing. Social media and forum posters are not the ones handling these events, fortunately.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Oops thought the was P&Ns Middle Name
Regardless it still appropriate

 

[Jhhnn]

Yep, twice a year we get this "where I'm from" macho blustering bullshit from citizens each proclaiming to the other side how wimpy they are for not tolerating X. The North rags on the South's handling of Snow Storms, while the South rags on the North's inability to handle a couple of days above 100.

Where I grew up in the South, there was no such thing as a Snow Plow. Whatever snow fell stayed there until it was compacted into ice, at which point it would remain for days on days. It was a massive hazard. When I moved up North, it became easy to see that many homes here were not equipped to handle 100+ days because they don't have air conditioning of any type installed. They basically become brick ovens in the summer.

And as a point to that, whenever it's extreme people still die, especially amongst the homeless populations. Chicago is already under several feet of snow, and while points counters will beat their chest that the core of Chicago will remain open, they won't bother to mention the poor suburbs, the homeless, the fringes, will become nearly inaccessible with nearly 4 feet of accumulated snow on the ground. The same way that after a week long heatwave in Georgia and Florida, people still die. There's still heatstrokes. There's still homeless untended to.

Extreme weather of any type is a danger and needs the fastest response possible and the acceptance of outside help to prevent as many deaths as possible. I'd rather people focused on that vs. the "unga dunga my dirt stronger than your dirt" bullshit.

I'm not ragging on Texas. The current situation is just extremely unusual for them so they're not prepared to handle it unassisted. So, Biden is doing the right thing. Dunno what help can be rendered but the feds will help out as they can. That's a good thing.

 

[zzyzxroad]

More diverse in what ways, exactly, and compared to what other states?

The only reason this topic exists, of course, is because of republican bitching when the pandemic first hit, and how trump/kushner deliberately withheld aid because they thought the virus would only impact "blue states". So the goal of the thread isn't to point fingers at Texas, it's to point out the blatant hypocrisy of republicans (....in other news, water is wet) by highlighting Biden's competent governance

Might want to wash your feet because you just stepped in a pile of thread crap.

 

[MrSquished]

Republicans have become the party of the ultimate hypocrisy on pretty much anything. It's the party of confederate flag waving racists, QAnon and all conspiracy theorists, and insane cult like Evangelicals the rapture is coming folks.

This is not good company.

I'll take some overly politically correct liberals over that shit show any day.