Family of Boy Who Died in Texas Storm Suing Power Company for $100 Million
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Sounds like neglect. How was the family not all huddled up together? The low there was in the teens.
edit/ Mom did not check on him until 2pm. Your power goes out during a crazy winter storm and you don't check on your sleeping eleven year old until 2pm?!
There’s always more to the story.
Infuriating.
On the WaPo article someone gently asks about this fact (gets 3 upvotes) and the response w/ 34 upvotes is:
"Under normal conditions I would agree with you. But here we have a family living in a freezing cold mobile home for several days now, struggling along the way you might in a third-world country. No help in sight, just another freezing cold day, like the one before. So you assume your boy is snug and safe under all those blankets in his bad. And that feels like a relief to you.
SO you asked: what's WRONG with this picture? What's wrong is no heat, no water, no electricity, and no help coming anytime soon. IN AMERICA. That's whats wrong with this picture."
The other responses are equally retarded.
Americans are so stupid. What the fuck.
America was founded by people who did NOT rely on others to keep them warm, feed them, and provide them with water. PLANTS need this kind of care.
Hey, maybe they blame Biden....
I hear you. This country is going the way of the third world very quickly.
Like the fact that the Dept of Energy refused to let Texas increase its wattage usage because of "Muh, climate change" policies that Biden put into effect. I'd say these people have a real shot at at least making waves with their attempt. It's kind of hard to keep your family warm when the U.S. government refuses to turn up the wattage. It's fucking ridiculous to say the least.
It’s ridiculous and people died as a result. Extra power for a week isn’t going to make “climate change bogeyman” happen an more or less quickly.
Yeah like $100 million
Maybe the temperature dropped steeply during the night, maybe the heat went off during the night? Something happened to put that boy at risk, and sad as it may be to say, the parents should have been more alert.
I edited my previous comment, but apparently Mom didn't check on him until 2pm Tuesday. Neglect.
2 p.m.?????
What mother would not check a child who sleeps that long? Most children never sleep past 8 a.m. Something's not right here. If I were that mother, I'd keep my mouth shut for fear of CPS taking the other kids away.
2:30, actually. And the boy slept w/ the 3 year old sibling (who is fine). ...Parents didn't even sleep with the three year old???
'Cristian was still responsive when his stepfather, Manuel Moreno, woke up in the middle of the night to check on him, his aunt Jaliza Yera told KTRK. "He made sure they were okay," Yera said. "They were still breathing. He covered them up, patted them and went back to sleep. " '
Supposedly step-dad checked on them in the middle of the night. They were 'still breathing'? Very weird thing to say.
That's what I feared, may he rest in peace
I fell asleep last sunday night with an open window and wearing thin pajama pants and no socks on. I woke up at 3:30am monday morning wondering why the hell I could not feel my toes or my legs. I was simply laying on the ground in my VR room watching youtube when I had fallen asleep.
So when I finally was able to get standing, I threw on some warm socks, alpaca lined slippers I got from Peru and I laid out 4 differing types of blankets/comforters on my bed and balled up underneath them all. Yes, it was cold as Pelosi's heart, but with a burning desire inside me to get warm, I was able to do the very basic things that a half competent human being would do and I layered the shit out of what I had.
When I finally woke up, knowing I had lost power already, I naturally checked the water and it was frozen. Fortunately, I had enough foresight to leave my faucets outside dripping and suffered no busted plumbing by doing so. But I still had no water. So during the rolling black out, when electricity was working, instead of bringing all my portable heaters inside, I found/knew where the plumbing entered the house. I placed my heaters against and towards the walls where the plumbing entered and while it took several hours to work, while many of my neighbors saw me outside checking if the water was running, they were surprised that I had running water. Let's just saw, the water pressure was higher than I had ever seen it before when I unfroze my pipes. It is now back to normal pressure, but having only gone for 30 or less hours without water wasn't the end of the world.
After I had the running water, along with my heaters furnace heating the house, I then was able to locate the portable heaters to keep my ass toasty. Being a thin blooded mammal, I am basically frozen feeling when it hits 60F or colder. I think most Texans would agree that below 60F is more than pants and jacket weather. It becomes long johns with jeans, double long sleeves and maybe a sweater with a jacket over that. And I am not exactly a light build man, I got some extra meat on my bones. With that in mind, I don't think the kid was properly cared for by its family. It almost feels as a horrible leftists excuse to try and get money for their own laziness and neglect of responsibility for their own fucking child.
May the little boy rest in peace, but fuck that little boy's parents.
Coming from somebody who just lived through it in Texas...I doubt it, so many people homes without power got ice cold. Don't expect those on the bottom end the economic scale to have generators and the clothes needed to combat the cold when it's -4 outside and you live in a trailer with poor insulation.