Texan here, lucky enough to live a red city so we aren't boiling our water (yet.) We've had power outages all week, some rolling some really severe. There's a neighborhood here that hasn't had power since Sunday. Most people's lights have been on today.
We have a crisis developing here too though- clean water.
Everyone's pipes are frozen, more people everyday. It's gotten to be so bad that I only know one person who still has both power and running water. We're all melting snow to flush our toilets. The person I know with water is letting people fill jugs up at her house. Grocery stores are limiting purchases of water.
The thaw won't happen tomorrow, I don't think. The NWS is predicting temps will only be above zero for a couple of hours. We still have two days of this left and I'm becoming concerned people are getting sick. We can't shower, can't wash our clothes, can't wash our hands (hand sanitizer can only do so much.)
Where is FEMA? This is turning in a Katrina situation.
Absolutely unacceptable. I’m so sorry for the people of Texas. I’d lose my mind in that situation. I guess I’m lucky considering the longest I ever lost power was around 10-12 hours one summer night in 2019, and I’ve never lost running water before. This is what third world countries deal with. Not America. Texans need to demand action to fix their energy system ASAP and make it sustainable. And no national grid or green nonsense.
For sure. I smell shenanigans with this. Infrastructure funding has been spent properly.
The TX GOP is to blame for this due to them being cheapasses and refused to winterize the grid. Natural gas failed much moreso than wind. The nuke power plant in Houston also failed because of refusal to winterize.