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

a reply to: Lysergic

Well, true, but they don't let the soyboys out of the incorporated counties. They might skin their knee or something. So, Aurora is about as far east as they go. DTC maybe to the south.

Otherwise you deal with it, hot or cold.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I guess they just aren't geared up for it. Not so tough when mother nature B Slaps you in the...

Here I have over 3ft snow in the back yard, front yard looks like an iceberg mysteriously landed here out of nowhere, due to the snowblower piling it up. Expecting a bunch more over the next 10 days. Temp is -11 Deg C....

Electricity - Check
Water - Check
Gas - Check
Internet - Check
Texas should consider some contingency places for cold weather? - Check

Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

Welcome to Europe and parts of Asia. Lots of deodorant cologne and cat baths with scant water on washcloths. Just like the good ol times.

a reply to: KKLOCO

a reply to: Lysergic

When I first moved here to CO from Europe I couldn't take the heat either. But now with proper clothing after 20 years on and off thank god its nothing as long as I prepare, hat , sleeves etc.

Pretty much the entire city of Houston still has no water, so you were wrong on that point. I haven't come on here complaining about it. We just dealt with it like anything else. Of course the media is going to make a circus of it, it's what they do. Now, I will say that I have lived here my entire life, and we have never had any situation in which planned outages were conducted, so I have to think there is some serious mismanagement going on up there in regards to that. The only real complaint I have is that I had to move in to my workplace on Sunday and stay all week to take care of this place. I would rather have been home with the family.

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I disagree. To put it into Fahrenheit some places here can get as cold as -40F and as hot as 100F. We don't shutdown if gets 100F, we just deal with it.

a reply to: TortoiseKweek

Exactly. Our infrastructure wasn't built with this kind of weather in mind because it is so rare as to be nearly nonexistent. Same with clothing, most people have a light jacket and never have to wear it.

I just spent the longest 48 hours of my life with no sleep at the fire station.
It comes down to we are not built for this, we are built for heat. The calls I ran on were water breaks, car wrecks, EMS (more than normal), and of course fires.
Houses aren’t well insulated to hold heat, metal pipes on exterior walls, the elderly on oxygen can’t run their machines, and fireplaces here are mainly for show. Zero clearance fire places in apartments are cheap and put together poorly. When people try to stay warm they burn everything and it sets attics on fire.
If you sent our August weather to Alaska or somewhere cold, it would be pretty bad for them. I lived in Montana for a while and really learned to hate winter.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

It was -40c up here in Canada for a week and a half.
I wish our winters were like what Texas got. That’s T-shirt weather here.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I completely agree with almost everything. Yet I agree the problem of water should not have happened but here we are.
And also many people I know live there, and all they have been doing is complaining about the cold.
Cmon man grow a pair Texas.

Part of the issue is its being blown out proportion a bit by the media to push the green agenda and the Great Reset. But when stores shut down in the hundreds even in neighboring states and gvt comes out and says they are suspending any efforts to restore power and water until you know.. weather stops being weather, you have to start and think that maybe there is an agenda here. (I wouldn't be surprised if the plan was to make people suffer long enough that violence breaks out and they can go in and take guns for "safety reasons" like they did in areas badly hit by Katrina)

At any rate, I hope those suffering right now at the hands of at best, un prepared infrastructure, and at worst, officials and leaders that want them to suffer, get relief soon.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

It was -40c up here in Canada for a week and a half.
I wish our winters were like what Texas got. That’s T-shirt weather here.

So true! By the time I got finishing plowing snow today, I was so hot I had the jacket off and just the t-shirt on. Enjoyed a smoke in the nice "warm" weather thereafter. Sun was shining and no wind. It was bliss! People not from here just won't get what I'm talking about, lol!

Hold up Mr I’m a bad a$s survival man. You all are prepared for snow and freezing temperatures. Texas obviously was not equipped for this weather.

Don’t disparage Texan either. I’m sure you only read about the bad stuff that is happening in Texas because that’s what makes the news business so much fun.

But here are a few positive things happening in my community in FortWorth.

Some local boys drove around our neighborhood and handed out Firewood to anyone who needed.

Some local restaurants are getting to get her to hand out free meals.

A local arborist offered to take down and haul away trees that may have fallen.

People opened their homes for others with now power.

A pizza place with a gas stove made pizza in the dark so people could get food.

Our church put together a massive water drive. Texans with their trucks drive up to the church loaded their bed with bottle waters and they drove around the community handing out cases of bottle water.

I’m sure there are more great stories of other communities coming together.

Sorry Disk, I like most of your stuff but you pissed me off with this one.

By the way I only moved out here from California 6 months ago. I never felt this passionate about a community and people like I have now.

No doubt Texans have some ego but they sure do have heart.

originally posted by: TortoiseKweek

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I disagree. To put it into Fahrenheit some places here can get as cold as -40F and as hot as 100F. We don't shutdown if gets 100F, we just deal with it.

And this is the exact reason 1000s of people from the north every year end up in the hospital with around 100 deaths avg

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I was in Chicago during a heat wave and the infrastructure held up. The main problem they seem to have is keeping the elderly safe. Many elderly people die during heat waves due to health complications and also some don't want to run A/C to save money and end up passing out and dying from heat exhaustion.

originally posted by: markovian

originally posted by: TortoiseKweek

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I disagree. To put it into Fahrenheit some places here can get as cold as -40F and as hot as 100F. We don't shutdown if gets 100F, we just deal with it.

And this is the exact reason 1000s of people from the north every year end up in the hospital with around 100 deaths avg

What? Your post made no sense to me.

originally posted by: TortoiseKweek

originally posted by: markovian

originally posted by: TortoiseKweek

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I disagree. To put it into Fahrenheit some places here can get as cold as -40F and as hot as 100F. We don't shutdown if gets 100F, we just deal with it.

And this is the exact reason 1000s of people from the north every year end up in the hospital with around 100 deaths avg

What? Your post made no sense to me.

Thinking it gets to 100f at home 120 ill be fine ... 2 hrs later passed out in the street

100f just isent a extreme

originally posted by: Bunch

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I was in Chicago during a heat wave and the infrastructure held up. The main problem they seem to have is keeping the elderly safe. Many elderly people die during heat waves due to health complications and also some don't want to run A/C to save money and end up passing out and dying from heat exhaustion.

A lot of apartments in Chicago don't have AC. It can be brutally hot and humid in summer time.

originally posted by: Bunch

originally posted by: markovian
Reverse the situation 120f+ heatwave up north they would fair no better

No state is prepared for such a extreme shift in weather

I was in Chicago during a heat wave and the infrastructure held up. The main problem they seem to have is keeping the elderly safe. Many elderly people die during heat waves due to health complications and also some don't want to run A/C to save money and end up passing out and dying from heat exhaustion.

It takes a bit more for infrastructure failures ac units and transformers die often out hear we have to put cooling fins on everything

Without the extra cooling any component thats close to its end of life will start to fail just like how in the cold with insulation theres a steep drop off once you get past a certan point