This is literally what happens when you don't winterize stuff.
I get it costs a little extra to winterize things or get winter ready building material, but god damn, look at what happens when you don't. You get burst pipes and crippled states.
I don't know. I'm from the North in Idaho, so the winter/extreme cold isn't shit to us here. We deal with it. We had almost a month of below zero days with 3+ feet of snow on the ground in the valley a couple years ago. We just had about a foot and a half of snow early this week. You just shrug and keep it going. But our shit is winterized.
I don't know a single prepared Texan who has died. Boy scouts used to have a motto - Be Prepared. That is now scorned by the media and the new motto is screw kids and depend on us.
So us old timers are just sitting back and laughing at the cultural wisdom of this generation.
To all of the assholes saying Texans can't handle the cold, your right. Bring your butts down here and spend the summer working outside with us. Your talking about winterizing for what is normally a 2-3 day deal that turns to 70 degrees the following day. Summers get to 103 feels like a steamy 110/120 degrees and that lasts for 4-5 months. Sometimes we get 85 degrees on Christmas day. It gets too hot down here to bother getting used to the cold.
Also, how many of you up north remember the first days of winter shake down. Where you find out the things that might not have been protected as well as you thought they were. Then you make them right for the rest of the winter. You also know from year to year what equipment or piping is going to need a heater or maybe even heat tracing to keep it from freezing.
This wouldn't even have been so bad if we hadn't lost electricity. The local municipality lost power to the pumps so the whole let your water trickle thing turned into broken pipes all down the street in one neighborhood and the ceiling caving in in some houses.
Sitting in a house without electricity and your options begin to dwindle. That run to the store or gas station is canceled because no one is open in your area. Fire places are mostly for looks because who wants to get even hotter just to see a fire.
Ice is a real danger on the road because we don't have the salt crews that they do up north.
You start to figure things out, and you start to think about what you need on hand for something like this and in another twenty years when it gets this cold again, you're in entirely different circumstances.
Most of the stuff that is needed for the power outages are needed to also prepare for a civil war or any other major event. We should all have a supply of food, clean water (keep even more if you have pets), any medications we need, and something to generate electricity. This is a good reminder, even for those of us with power, to prepare for the next disaster.
They def close meat/deli/prodded foods when there is no water, but now with the rona it must extend to everything? Seems like dry foods and most middle aisles would be fine if there is any food left at this point.
It's a sanitation and employee thing.
This is literally what happens when you don't winterize stuff.
I get it costs a little extra to winterize things or get winter ready building material, but god damn, look at what happens when you don't. You get burst pipes and crippled states.
I don't know. I'm from the North in Idaho, so the winter/extreme cold isn't shit to us here. We deal with it. We had almost a month of below zero days with 3+ feet of snow on the ground in the valley a couple years ago. We just had about a foot and a half of snow early this week. You just shrug and keep it going. But our shit is winterized.
Texas does not normally get these low temperatures. You do.
Seriously are Texans that fucking stupid? Let me help you,
THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU AND YOUR TOO STUPID TO NOTICE....
Are you going to do anything about it or die?
I don't know a single prepared Texan who has died. Boy scouts used to have a motto - Be Prepared. That is now scorned by the media and the new motto is screw kids and depend on us.
So us old timers are just sitting back and laughing at the cultural wisdom of this generation.
To all of the assholes saying Texans can't handle the cold, your right. Bring your butts down here and spend the summer working outside with us. Your talking about winterizing for what is normally a 2-3 day deal that turns to 70 degrees the following day. Summers get to 103 feels like a steamy 110/120 degrees and that lasts for 4-5 months. Sometimes we get 85 degrees on Christmas day. It gets too hot down here to bother getting used to the cold.
Also, how many of you up north remember the first days of winter shake down. Where you find out the things that might not have been protected as well as you thought they were. Then you make them right for the rest of the winter. You also know from year to year what equipment or piping is going to need a heater or maybe even heat tracing to keep it from freezing.
This wouldn't even have been so bad if we hadn't lost electricity. The local municipality lost power to the pumps so the whole let your water trickle thing turned into broken pipes all down the street in one neighborhood and the ceiling caving in in some houses.
Sitting in a house without electricity and your options begin to dwindle. That run to the store or gas station is canceled because no one is open in your area. Fire places are mostly for looks because who wants to get even hotter just to see a fire.
Ice is a real danger on the road because we don't have the salt crews that they do up north.
You start to figure things out, and you start to think about what you need on hand for something like this and in another twenty years when it gets this cold again, you're in entirely different circumstances.
Most of the stuff that is needed for the power outages are needed to also prepare for a civil war or any other major event. We should all have a supply of food, clean water (keep even more if you have pets), any medications we need, and something to generate electricity. This is a good reminder, even for those of us with power, to prepare for the next disaster.
Yeah, it's not safe to shop at the Walmarts unless they have running water. I always (actually never) use running water when I shop at Walmarts.
"Whoa dude don't be dumb that knife belongs in a kitchen not my back!"
They def close meat/deli/prodded foods when there is no water, but now with the rona it must extend to everything? Seems like dry foods and most middle aisles would be fine if there is any food left at this point.
They are not stupid.