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Boy, that power grind in TX they refused to connect to the national grid because they didn't like all those regulations and that is wholly owned by a private corporation is operating swimmingly this week!
Good thing those those nanny state experts didn't force them to adequately maintain that grid! And it's definitely great that they're unable to import power from, say, Florida right now!
Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Libertarian paradise!
“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd, previously mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Yeah, fuck you and your family! Bootstraps motherfucker, have you heard of them!?!?!?!
The Texas power grid failed mostly due to natural gas. Republicans are blaming wind turbines.
Pass that buck like a true Patriot!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 17 2021, @09:56PM (15 children)
And, predictably, when your entire ideology is defined by being anti-everything-Obama and the Obama admin suggest something reasonable like winterizing gas plants.... Whelp, here we are with seventeen dead and counting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2021, @10:05PM (1 child)
I hope the families get some serious lawsuits going, but knowing Texas they'll throw them out with some bullshit excuse.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 17 2021, @10:41PM
They got exactly what they voted for, unfortunately.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:15AM (5 children)
But hey, on the upside...fewer Texans :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @01:55AM (3 children)
Along those lines, a friend linked a tweet about a prepper in Texas who was all set for the end of the world, had his piles of canned food and everything....
...wait for it...
and only had an electric can opener!
Poor idiot, all he can open is beer until the power comes back on.
I offered to send him my spare SwingAway, but of course he doesn't trust the US Mail to deliver anything, so that was a non-starter.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 18 2021, @03:55AM (2 children)
That story is so damned silly, no one should really respond to it. But - anyone with a pocket knife of any kind can open a can of baked beans. It's hard to believe that any prepper doesn't have an official K-rats can opener, but let's just say it's true. Survival knife, folding knive, tactical knive, utility knife, a moderately sturdy steak knife - damned near any knife will open a can. If you can't figure it out, you deserve to go hungry. No, I don't mind that you cut your fingers a couple times while figuring it out.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:09AM
Worst comes to worst, even a bludgeon will open cans. It's obviously fake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @07:05AM
Runaway trolled hard, again. This is becoming not even entertaining. Runaway, go stick your head in the Well-head, and make sure your family don't die of CO2 poisoning. Don't be so stupid, Runaway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:07AM
Let's see, your tribe tends to believe the government can save them from everything, make them all rich, and solve every problem in the world.
The other tribe tends to believe government is, at best, a necessary evil, completely inept, and they want nothing more than to be left alone.
Guess which tribe is dying when the systems in place go down for a few days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:27AM (5 children)
Given how most of the "facts" you source end up being about as real as the tooth fairy, I'm curious to see what the real numbers end up as. Not to say these people didn't die of course, but rather the cause. Mr. 'Fire extinguisher to the head' fake news person you.
In general freezing to death for a remotely healthy person is pretty damned hard, and being in any sort of cover (even ice itself - a la igloos - the idea is to block the wind, not provide warmth) with a blanket is generally enough to keep you perfectly safe. Not comfortable mind you, but not dead.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @06:26AM (2 children)
I haven't seen a complete run-down, but of the cases I've seen mentioned, more of the realistically power-outage-related ones seem to be due to morons' attempts to generate heat (burning their house down or idling a car in the garage until they CO themselves) than exposure. And then there's the good old car crash fatalities; I guess we're supposed to pretend that if only the electric were running, Texicans would have the winter driving skills of midwestern snow-hogs.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 18 2021, @03:54PM (1 child)
There are 24 dead people and none of them were in car crashes.
I'm sure their families will take much comfort in the fact they died trying to not freeze to death instead of freezing to death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @09:38PM
It's interesting that as crises returns to society, so too does natural selection. It's macabre to say the least, but the sort of people starting uncontrolled fires in their own home, or not understanding that filling your house with CO is dangerous - well, they are not exactly fit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @06:52AM
Winter deaths like this are not just freezing to death, which usually kills old people and those in vehicles, but also things like carbon monoxide poisoning, house fires, exertion, infarction, ischemia, aneurysm, frostbite, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @07:11AM
We are talking Texans, here. Had to survive by drinking water out of a Buffalo hoofprint, but never had to deal with weather like this. I think they may actually all die. Water in the Hoof Print is frozen. No electricity. Gov Abbot is AWOL! No one understands CO!!! And they will die from it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @06:16AM
Yep, Texans are dying in car crashes, and it's all because they wouldn't listen when Obama told them to learn how to drive in snow. Definitely not because it's something they rarely experience and have little chance to get good at.