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posted ago by Jghou ago by Jghou +1460 / -2
  1. It's cold AF, this southerner doesn't do cold. At 50 degrees it's fucking cold for me. I can count in one hand how many times I've seen snow at my home my entire life.

  2. It's been over 48 hours without power, it's fucking cold inside my house. I have a generator but no electric heaters. I've never felt the need to have them. Stores are wiped cleaned so can't find one either.

  3. It's so fucking cold that multiple pipes have already burst flooding my first floor. I didn't flood during Harvey and the 52 inches of rain that came with it but this freeze flooded my home.

  4. To the northerners that say oh that's just light sweater weather. Our infrastructure isn't designed to handle this cold. Kinda like where you're from, the infrastructure might not be able to handle 100+ degree weather for over two months straight, or 15 inches of rain in a single weekend. Our infrastructure is built for that, not prolonged subfreezing temperatures.

  5. Fuck ERCOT

  6. I'm "essential" so still have to work and do my best to take care of the family from work.

  7. I love Texas

  8. Trump is the legitimate president.

  9. Why am I making this post? Green energy is cool and all but it will never replace fossil fuels. To anyone that says solar and wind power are the future, just look at this fucking mess.

  10. I'm not waiting for the government to save me. My dad came over to my house and helped me clean and fix the pipes. My neighbors are helping me out with water, I'm helping them by letting them charge their phones and flashlights. I fired up the grill and my neighbor brought over deer meat that was going to go bad.

  11. Don't turn off my fucking gas centrepoint. The fireplace is the only heat that I have.

  12. Stay warm pedes, some of you have it way worse than I do.

Sorry I'm rambling.

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mikethemarine 2 points ago +2 / -0

I do have to say, you must be prepared for all events, we had a heat wave today, this morning -2 degrees now blazing 15 degrees, try loosing power for 4 days in this temperature I have, and you probably never heard of it it effected 100,000 people on and off for a week, started with a heat wave thunder showers and the temp. dropped off while raining in January, took almost every line out, cause trees were heavy and aiding in taking out the lines went on for a week, so since I am rural I was last to be served