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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.
Grilling with your neighbors is great. When we had a hurricane knock our electric out for 8 days back in the 90s we got together with neighbors and friends who all had meat that would spoil, grilled it all up and shared evening meals together. We had a generator that could power our fridge and one fan, so we were able to keep our food chilled enough after it was cooked that it wouldn't spoil.
These are the times when people like us, conservatives, we pull ourselves up and find solutions to the problems at hand.
Good luck to you. I hope you're not without electricity for too long and know that you will be ok in the end.