State of emergency declared. Many grocery stores are closed, the few that are open are both basically out of food and only open a few hours per day. The city is telling us to stop dripping water for those of us who have it. Already had one pipe explode (now fixed), don't need more to explode. Our infrastructure was not made for this weather.
We finally got an electric reprieve today. Sorry y'all are still going through so much. We're still spending time by the fireplace, though we've stabilized temps in the mid 60's.
This'll be the first night this week I get to sleep in my bed instead of a mattress by the fireplace.
@SoupRKnowva@Syzygy Hang in there y'all. By Saturday the weather should be back to normal and we can start cleaning up this mess. Get ready for downed limbs and general fuckery after tonight's ice storm. Once the thaw happens things should slowly start to look up with power and water plants getting back online, fuel deliveries to gas stations etc.
I’m really grateful that we haven’t lost power and water here where we’re living in Waco. In the past I would have had a grill, Coleman stove and other survival type stuff but we got rid of all that when we moved overseas. People just a mile away haven’t had power for days. We actually hit -1F here. Not a record but close. Pantry is stocked.
Just in case anyone forgot the school lesson, water expands from 0C to -4C. The damage is done to pipes as it freezes, but the flood only happens as it thaws.
I'm hearing news of fifty-plus people dying in their cars because they don't think to move them outside before running the engine to warm up. Have to admit that, since catalytic converters became a thing, I'm a bit surprised to know cars still produce that much carbon monoxide.
We don't usually look to government to solve our problems.
There will likely be some hell to pay in the electric delivery industry here before everything settles. And then things'll get tweaked some so this won't happen again.
Given enough time, forethought, and money, any catastrophe can be avoided. Hopefully they'll do better on their emergency planning.
"don't usually look to the government to solve our problems" <> "Across the United States, including Washington, D.C., and outer territories, FEMA has allocated about $45.5 billion since 2017 for various forms of disaster relief, excluding COVID-19. During this time, Texas has received the most money from FEMA, totaling more than $7.6 billion in federal aid and spending more than $6.2 billion."
I actually do actually look to government to solve lots of problems. Don't get me started on seatbelts, airbags, aniti-lock breaks, etc. Regulations exist for a reason and were in place until taken away for profit.
in an ideal world- regular folks would never be forced to suffer due to the inadequacies of leadership. the leaders should suffer. Hold leaders accountable for change.
@jexby Will that number ring in Cancun? Actually I just read that he was guilted into flying back today. The Insurance Council of Texas said this is projected to be the most costly weather event in Texas history, surpassing Hurricane Harvey. So we will definitely be sucking up some more of that sweet, sweet government funding. :|
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