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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: 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.