Texas has seen no help from fema or red cross. Not one fucking ounce of help. We are Freezing, We have No Water, No Power, No Internet. Grocery Stores are empty, cant find anything.
Now This Story Comes Out On Our Local Fake News.... https://abc13.com/weather/fema-sending-60-generators-to-texas-amid-power-outages-/10349070/... But if you read story it seems like they are more worried about vaccine spots. This is now going on 5 days and they are talking of sending food and water and supplies and Generators... Wtf where the hell has all this shit been... Still Have Not Seen Anything.
This is literally the problem prepping solves.
You don't need like 3 years of freeze dried Patriot Chow and 15krd of 556 in your garage, just have like basic shit to live normally for a couple weeks to a month.
I keep saying we need a prepping sub forum here.
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Preparation is key. Alot of stuff needed for hurricane season was needed this week. Also having a good community of like minded people to depend on is great. 3 neighbors had busted pipes and one had a fire. We help each other. I added additional insulation to my house 2 years ago, replaced the windows last year and repiped the house with pex 3 years ago. I was able to ride it out with the inside temp saying at 50° the whole time. The pex was able to take the freeze and thaw without leaking.
Why are so many pipes bursting? Pretty simple to turn off the incoming water supply valve and open up all the faucets to drain...?
Most people, including me, decided to drip the pipes instead of draining the house out. I preferred to have running water. My brother in law drained his house but he wasn't going to be there for this week.
Dude. Cmon. Not everyone can burn $1000 on a generator when they haven't seen these temps in 150 years.
Tbh I expected every single Texan to have one already just for tailgating and like hog hunting camp and shit. Regardless you don't need to spend anything close to $1000 for a basic 4 cycle genset you're gonna use every now and then, just get the harbor freight one for like $450. It's not like you need a genuine Honda that can run for a month straight, and the HF chineseium engines are not bad (because they more or less just copy Honda or B&S). If you really hate China, craigslist also has gensets all the time in the sub-$500 range (and less if you find one with a "dead" motor to resurrect), at least during times when there's no demand crunch. You can even occasionally find dead ones on curbsides, and most of the time there's nothing significantly wrong with anything it just needs a $40 carb rebuild kit and some effort.
Edit: Nothing like downvoting advice to really say "I'm a retard".
I mean, I'm sure the based af 18 year old who just moved out on his own, living in his own apt that he paid the deposit using money from his job he worked in high school, plus his current factory job, after his shittard liberal mom left him with nothing but the clothes on his back, was just fucking lazy and totally had $450 lying around to buy a generator. Will he die? No, but mostly because hes young, and not because it's no big deal. This whole "DUH, YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD A GENERATOR" is just retarded.
Having a generator is a much better solution than complaining how much the government sucks for not doing anything about it. Yeah we know it sucks. It's sucked for decades. You also missed the part where I said a genset can be had damn near for free if you look around enough. People buy them for like one use, leave gas in em, it gunks up and the ethanol corrodes the carb, and they just throw it away and buy a new one. The cost is mainly you need to learn how to rebuild a carb. Every "based 18 year old that works in a factory" should be capable of this, if they haven't already done it for fun as a teenager. This also applies to pretty much any other small engine equipment, people throw away weedeaters all the time cuz they use E10/E15 and never drain the gas at the end of summer.
In fact I bet in the next few weeks there will be more than usual showing up curbside because Boomer Bill pulled his out when the power died, found it wouldn't start, and ordered a new one. Granted, if you want one you're gonna be competing with small engine repair guys that fix and flip at their shop, and Mexican junk trucks looking for copper.
Prepping is al well and good, but it doesn’t do jack shit for you when your pipes aren’t insulated.
Honestly, the major component of this is the fact that our infrastructure isn’t geared to handle below freezing temps. Everything else is secondary.
Also, the news likes to focus on all the welfare cases crying about how they don’t have water. That’s entirely on those people.
The major component of this is that the bureaucrats in charge of infrastructure KNEW the pipes should be insulated, but didn't do it.
A lot of dumb tomorrow problems can be prevented by trying and executing corrupt, incompetent bureaucrats today.
What pipes and what bureaucrats? If you’re talking about the energy producers, yes, maybe more needed to be done. We don’t know what kind of prep they did yet. The “fixable” aspect of this CF is there.
lmao insulating the above ground gas transit pipes. You know the big 8" cunts that aren't yours.
The swimming noodles are made from the same material as Everbilt pipe insulation & can be used for the pipes.
Umm... if your pipes are in danger of freezing, you don't turn off the water, that will just leave water in the lines to your house and they WILL freeze. You actually have to leave the water running all the time. Where I live it is so cold you have to leave a faucet on all winter (starting in January) or the pipes will freeze.
Umm, my family did.
Yeah, Texans are kinda showing their weak side. I live in ND and it freezes here a lot. Sometimes our water will Freeze, sometimes power outages. But generally, even at -30 people are still out doing their life and working.
Only time it really stops is under white out conditions.
I design buildings. The differences in the building codes between Texas climate zones and ND climate zones are huge as far as insulation requirements are concerned. Nothing here is designed to be in this cold of weather for this long. It is all failing. Water utilities need parts to fix pumps that froze, but can't get any because truck aren't running again yet, because the roads are a mess and we don't have plows and salt trucks. Same for grocery stores, no food because no trucks. I lived in Minnesota for a while and the opposite is true there. The worst week I was there, the temps were -20 with wind chill -40. It was cold, but those buildings are designed to withstand it. They don't do well in heat above 90 though, as a lot of homes don't even have A/C, just heat. It's not about our "weak side", you have to consider the actual physical differences of the regions. I'd be curious to see how well you fare after a week of 100+ temps with 95% humidity. It's like living in a sauna.
I'm pretty sure a beaten down Trailer that's older than my mom isn't exactly building standards.
Well you got that right! Those are even less equipped to deal with cold weather, and there's probably millions of them here.
And you mean 100+ Temps with Air Condition at every building?? I was in Garland Texas working on HVAC on roofs there. Well, it was a school I was going to.
I don't like HVAC but there are ways to deal with heat. Just like there are ways to deal with cold.
No one is better than the other, you're not out there every day in direct sunlight like I'm not outside in direct ice cold weather, because if I was, I'd be dead with frostbite in 10 minutes.
You're right, one area isn't better or worse, just different. And yes, there are ways to deal with cold... we just don't have many of them here. I am knowledgeable enough to understand the differences and had my house well prepared, but I'm without running water because the 8" main feeding my area froze and ruptured (I do have plenty of stored water for drinking/bathing, and we collected snow to melt for flushing the toilets). On top of that, everybody dripping their faucets to keep their home's pipes from freezing has actually lowered the storage tanks in my area below a certain level, which automatically shut down the pumps to keep them from burning up, which caused them to freeze instead. The system was never designed to provide for this much demand all at once. It's a clusterfuck of conditions our infrastructure just wasn't built to handle. Hopefully things will get better after temps start staying above freezing on Saturday. Granted, there are plenty of people who had no idea what we were in for, so I've been making the rounds making sure all my neighbors are taken care of, delivering cases of water to folks weren't prepared.
Fuck off Commie, Texas is 102 in the shade, not -6. It hits 85 you pussies will be showing your weak side.
Yep. The year I lived in Minnesota was to play football. That year in my part of Texas, the first two weeks of August were 100+. I was in Minnesota starting the 3rd week of August for 3-a-day practices, and the high temps were around 85, and it was breezy too. Those Minnesota guys were dropping like flies around me from the "heat" while I was barely breaking a sweat. That all changed completely when winter hit, and these fools were in shorts when it was 10 degrees, while I was bundled up in my room, lol.
He said something bad about Texas therefor Commie - this Liberal.
You are saying people in Texas should be prepared for winter the same as people in North Dakota.
You are either a fucking retard or a fucking Commie shill.
Bruh Colorado swings from 100+ in the summer to several degrees below zero in the winter, non-Texans aren't the British
Yeah, sure, around here, around the first of June mother nature cranks the heat up to broil and breaks off the dial. You're lucky if by October it's getting below 90.
That's true, but how often does it get that hot, and for how long at a time? Sure you can handle a day or two without much problem, but if it goes for a week or more, people start dying. I've lived up north, and the people there just aren't acclimated to it... just like we aren't acclimated to this extended cold. We get temps of 100+ for weeks at a time, yet it typically only snow a tiny bit every few years. What's happening now is very uncommon.
You're in MN, stfu you ass, no it doesn't. It rarely gets above 100, it's only 70% humidity, which isn't much more than TX, and yall are absolute pussies when it does happen.
Yeah, I hear that shit from Yankees all the time"it gets just as hot here".
Retard.
Texans, or California refugees?