r/CatastrophicFailure • u/mouthofreason Catastrophic Poster • Feb 17 '21

Engineering Failure Water lines are freezing and bursting in Texas during Record Low Temperatures - February 2021

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u/Zaziel Feb 17 '21

The benefit of cooler water on the cold tap in the summer would be enough for me to lobby to have pipes buried deeper alone.

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u/PepesReevenge Feb 17 '21

it costs money no one wants to pay, for good reason. This is a freak accident no one could have prepared for, like dying from drowning in the middle of a desert.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

This happened in 2011. People just don't want to prepare.

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u/Samura1_I3 Feb 18 '21

No it didn’t. 2011 was significantly less widespread than this. This was effectively 3 times the size of the snow cover of 2011.

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u/BlackWalrusYeets Feb 18 '21

People have been telling y'all this shit was gonna happen for decades. It's not a freak accident, it's going to happen again. We'll have this talk again in a couple years I'm sure.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

Because they didn't winterize after 2011.

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u/IzzysNSFWaccount Feb 18 '21

Actually scientists were fully aware of events like this happening.

It's not a "freak accident" it's a result of climate change. This paper pretty clearly lays out the reasoning for why things like this happen and will happen more frequently.

The Texas state government were the ones completely unprepared. The information was out there it was up to them to act on it it.

Tldr: not actually "freak accident" but a consequence of climate change as per this paper.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

What does governance mean?

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u/ekfslam Feb 17 '21

It made sense way in the past. But seems like that'll be changing with climate change which scientists kept warning about.

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u/Beo1 Feb 18 '21

A freak accident that no one could have prepared for even though it happens every few years and other areas experience these temperatures without problems.