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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fuck ERCOT
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I'm "essential" so still have to work and do my best to take care of the family from work.
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I love Texas
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Trump is the legitimate president.
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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.
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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.
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Don't turn off my fucking gas centrepoint. The fireplace is the only heat that I have.
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Stay warm pedes, some of you have it way worse than I do.
Sorry I'm rambling.
Some of us moved to Florida because we had enough of nine month long winters, sub zero temps, and 4' deep snow. It's nice down here.
That said, I have relatives who have a cattle ranch in Kansas, and they're going through hell right now. They have hundreds of pregnant and birthing cows who need shelter, food and 30-50 gallons of water every day. The cattle pond is frozen 4' deep, and the rolling blackouts are making the water troughs by the shelters freeze solid. By the time they truck pails of water out to the cattle, the water in the pails has frozen. Tractors don't want to move when diesel turns to glue. When they get them running they break in 100 different ways. No way to get enough hay to the cows. Snow and ice all over. Come home nearly frostbitten to warm up and find out power has been out for an hour and can't even make a hot cup of coffee -- and they have to deal with all the issues any homeowner faces in extreme weather.
No one can truly be prepared when your backyard turns into the Antarctic. You just cope the best you can, and hope warm weather returns soon. Then make plans to move to Florida. ;)
Hard times create strong men.
I've moved around a bit in my almost 50 years. But the two States I've spent the vast majority of my life in are California and Texas (I live in the latter now). The thing with California weather is it's what I call "boringly perfect all the time". It is, it's boring. You can count on it being essentially sunny and in the 70's every single fucking day. The thing I like about living in Texas is that the weather adds a little bit of excitement - sometimes even danger - to your life. I like rain. I like thunderstorms. I like hot summer days at the pool with the family and friends. I like some change in weather. California weather is boring. Not to mention the liberalism sucks too.
OMG! Do you know what happens when "northerners" move to Florida to stay warm? Our Backyards turn into the Artic!