C'mon, Texas...what the heck???

What the heck, Texas??

You've got the largest refining and oil reserves in the country, yet you have no power?

You've got the whole "Yeah, but in Texas it's (insert superlative - best, biggest, toughest, biggest, meanest, baddest, etc)", yet you just got totally owned by a little cold spell.

BTW, it was minus -22F here in Colorado last week (and never got above minus -5F all week), and yeah, we had some power outages too, but geez! When the power goes out here (like it did last week) we don't have any water. Y'all are 97% on city water. What else do ya need? We can live without gas, without electricity, but water is a major issue. Y'all didn't lose water.

You're going to lead the way seceding from the Union, yet you declare a National Apocalypse when it...snows a little?

What the heck are y'all doin' down there?????

...or is all that "RAH Texas!!" bravado just a bunch of hot Texas air?

Honestly asking, because all I see in the media is how the entire sky has apparently fallen on Texas and chicken little was right all along.

Tell me it ain't so, Texas!

ETA - I thought you guys were the baddest mammer-jammer's on the planet!!!

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

My sister lives in Austin. She’s had no water since early Wednesday. Some of her friends haven’t had any since last weekend. By this point, they are a stinky bunch.

I personally can’t go more than 24 hours without a shower.

But you can buy big mansions in Texas for dirt cheap. I know because the internet reminds me all the time and some Texans don’t shut up about it.

I suspect some major sabotage happened !!😮

a reply to: KKLOCO

I could understand if people were bitchin' about not having water, but this doesn't seem to be what all the hullaballoo is about. In fact, I haven't seen one major report about that.

Besides, you figure out the water situation pretty quick.

When Texas does succeed from the union, can the Uper Penninsula of michigan become the Upper Peninsula of Texas? Us Yoopers have lots of guns, we need them to fend off irate squirrels and raccoons.....shooting skunks does not turn out well most times if you hit them in the wrong spot. We got a full blown leftist governor now, that is bad for the U.P.

a reply to: xuenchen
the "greenies" did it!

a reply to: rickymouse

Looks right now like Texas ain't seceding from jack squat if they cry for nanny gubbmint the minute it gets cloudy outside.

You might have better luck with eastern Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota and possibly Kansas.

originally posted by: autopat51
a reply to: xuenchen
the "greenies" did it!

Why did Texan's let them?

Some of the Videos on Youtube of everyone in wool hats, looking like they never felt a chill before and just landed on an Alien planet reminds me of Britain when we have a Heatwave. People just don't know wtf to do, because we are never prepared, we don't generally have AC here, most we have are a ceiling fan if we decided to put one up, and a Desk fan, I barely sleep in the Summer, it's always too damn hot and we barely get a few hours of Darkness.

I can't sit here and take the piss out of people for not preparing for something unusual and not knowing how to deal with it, if you see me in a Temp above 25 degrees you would think I was performing for an Oscar pretending to be in the Sahara .... but that's how I deal with it, my body can't do heat, it literally brings me to a stand still, and 5 mins in the Sun has me looking like a dead red lobster.

Autumn ...give me Autumn all year long, minus the Spiders!

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk
because they are turning purple from influx of people.

Southern states generally lose their minds when it snows or is cold. I couldn't imagine never seeing snow my whole life or below zero temps. I was literally outside making snow tunnels and snow ball fights in these conditions when I was younger. Losing power and not being prepared must be tough though. Any smart person will learn a lot from this and be ready next time.

I would not want to drive anywhere in Texas right now! How many millions of people not ever seen snow and now they are driving on it...just take it slow...if the highways slick you don't HAVE to go 80 mph...it's probably a demolition derby down there.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
What the heck, Texas??

You've got the largest refining and oil reserves in the country, yet you have no power?

You've got the whole "Yeah, but in Texas it's (insert superlative - best, biggest, toughest, biggest, meanest, baddest, etc)", yet you just got totally owned by a little cold spell.

BTW, it was minus -22F here in Colorado last week (and never got above minus -5F all week), and yeah, we had some power outages too, but geez! When the power goes out here (like it did last week) we don't have any water. Y'all are 97% on city water. What else do ya need? We can live without gas, without electricity, but water is a major issue. Y'all didn't lose water.

You're going to lead the way seceding from the Union, yet you declare a National Apocalypse when it...snows a little?

What the heck are y'all doin' down there?????

...or is all that "RAH Texas!!" bravado just a bunch of hot Texas air?

Honestly asking, because all I see in the media is how the entire sky has apparently fallen on Texas and chicken little was right all along.

Tell me it ain't so, Texas!

ETA - I thought you guys were the baddest mammer-jammer's on the planet!!!

If this was a once in a lifetime thing, I might feel sorry for Texas as a state. But this happened before.... only ten short years ago. NPR
They didn't learn the first time.... maybe they will learn this time?

I do feel sorry for the people, having lawmakers and bureaucrats that failed them again.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
What the heck, Texas??

You've got the largest refining and oil reserves in the country, yet you have no power?

You've got the whole "Yeah, but in Texas it's (insert superlative - best, biggest, toughest, biggest, meanest, baddest, etc)", yet you just got totally owned by a little cold spell.

BTW, it was minus -22F here in Colorado last week (and never got above minus -5F all week), and yeah, we had some power outages too, but geez! When the power goes out here (like it did last week) we don't have any water. Y'all are 97% on city water. What else do ya need? We can live without gas, without electricity, but water is a major issue. Y'all didn't lose water.

You're going to lead the way seceding from the Union, yet you declare a National Apocalypse when it...snows a little?

What the heck are y'all doin' down there?????

...or is all that "RAH Texas!!" bravado just a bunch of hot Texas air?

Honestly asking, because all I see in the media is how the entire sky has apparently fallen on Texas and chicken little was right all along.

Tell me it ain't so, Texas!

ETA - I thought you guys were the baddest mammer-jammer's on the planet!!!

It just tells me all the prepper fiction stories about EMPs and how quickly the collapse of society would occur is all true. People are woefully unprepared across the board.

A big part of this is that our standard of living is so high, we aren't used to not having to do with out basic things such as electricity and water. Everything in our lives is designed as if we always have electricity and water.

You'd be amazed at the number of people who don't know where our food comes from or what the animal even looks or sounds like...

Why has the tune changed with Texas?

Earlier in the week, when the finger was being pointed at green technology being the problem there were stars and flags flying in every thread.

When it transpires it was the usually reliable sources such as Gas burning power plants that apparently weren’t so reliable in this circumstance, Texans need to suck it up.

I often hear the left are hypocrites, and that is correct, but the right are also hypocrites. In fact it’s an ugly human trait we are all susceptible to.

Texas has thawed now hasn’t it? I wonder if any lessons have been learned?

a reply to: Cobaltic1978

Speak for yourself!

I bit my tongue when those threads were circulating, for exactly the reasons posted in the OP.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

It isn't really as bad as the media is making it out to be. I live here and we were fine. Granted my family is always prepare for the worst and we will always thrive in any situation. The problem was that the power centers were not allowed to ramp up the power plants because the EPA said that it would cause too much pollution. They were fully ready to ramp up before the storm and they were told not to.

We don't get weather like this very often and most people do not prepare enough for well, pretty much anything. Most people in the cities are so reliant on the government to take care of them. I live in the downtown area and i have a garden and raise chickens in my backyard. We have also stockpiled enough food and water to last us months but again most people around here do not.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Not aimed at you FCD.

But there are many it relates to. I’m not one for naming and shaming unlike some, but they know who they are.

Yet when it hits 100F in Colorado these soyboys can't go outside.

Green had a hand in this, such as solar panels not being functional when covered in snow, and windmills that were iced up, but the blame still goes to the bureaucrats that did not plan effectively for an eventuality that could be expected.