I’m getting sick of northerners making jokes about how “Texas needs to man up and pick up their nuts and tough it out. It’s just snow. We get it all the time up here!”
Yeah, but we have noelectricity, gas, or water. You people up north may be winter vets but we aren’t. The lack of electricity is borderline fatal. We aren’t accustomed to this shit.
It’s like if a guy from Alaska came to my part of Texas in the dead of summer and basked in 110° weather. He wouldn’t be acclimated and would suffer heat injury.
the problem is that politicians in states like yours are allowed to sit on these impending infrastructure disasters for years, maybe even decades, before something significant happen to expose all the gross negligence
as such, I'm "toughing it out" in an apartment that is way too warm rn. that's because nj's infrastructure is typically tested hard at least once per winter, not because we're a bunch of toughguys.
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Last edited by Bashar Teg on Feb 19th, 2021 at 12:04 AM
Reading about that boggles the mind. I get it was to both keep the money in Texas and to offer lower rates to customers, but why not build in the option to get power from other states in case of emergencies.
"I’m getting sick of northerners making jokes about how “Texas needs to man up and pick up their nuts and tough it out. It’s just snow. We get it all the time up here!”
Yeah, but we have noelectricity, gas, or water. You people up north may be winter vets but we aren’t. The lack of electricity is borderline fatal. We aren’t accustomed to this shit.
It’s like if a guy from Alaska came to my part of Texas in the dead of summer and basked in 110° weather. He wouldn’t be acclimated and would suffer heat injury."
Sry to hear ur stuck in this mess.
Northerners who tell u to man up thru this are either young, fools or have short memories and forgot things like the October snow storm of 2011.
Im sure there are a few other members here from the northeast who remember that mess.
Sometimes its more than just "a little snow" and just sacking up in shit like this doesn't cut it.
No snide feelings from Chicago man. Stay safe and help someone else who isn't. I don't wish being cold on anyone. I'm sitting under something like thirty inches cumulative of snow that hasn't melted at all during February, but it's different- we have an army of people and machines to move snow here. Awd is pretty standard. Drainage systems and heated to oofs and gutters... I can't even imagine the hell you guys are going through experiencing it for the first time.
Being without power is no picnic. Even then, we had water.
No power, no water, no gas, and no heat on the coldest season, I can't even imagine.
And your government should all be lined up against a wall. Seriously.
Stay safe.
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It was done, so Texas power companies would not have to comply with the federal regulations that would have prevented this, so they could pocket the money.
However, I am not sure if I can deal with Florida's summer humidity. I can deal with the damn cold temps, ice everywhere, snow everywhere...but 100% humidity at high temps all summer.....I am not so sure.
Anyone saying Texas needs to man up or whatever is likely saying it while wearing multiple layers from the warmth of their own home, do Texans even own winter clothing?
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The trouble is politicians get away with murder, unless the public complains.
No pressure from anyone to get on infrastructure, no reason for a useless politician to get off his ass and earn his money.
The very definition of someone sitting on their ass and getting government handouts, the handout being his paycheck from the tax payers.
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