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.
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.