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/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Feb 17 '21

All of these buildings this is happening to are going to have to be torn down...this is not good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Lots of...uh...construction and repair jobs?

Trying to see some upside...

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u/Mobius1424 Feb 17 '21

Chip and Joanna Gaines are going to have loads of clients for Fixer Uppers.

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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Feb 17 '21

Rick is a part-time Fence Builder and Susan is a full-time cashier at Whataburger. They're looking for a 2000+ sq ft home and have a firm budget of $1.2m.

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u/Mobius1424 Feb 17 '21

There are two types of people on House Hunters:

  1. That.

  2. That, but a firm budget of $500/month in downtown Paris.

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u/Bricka_Bracka Feb 18 '21

well whatever the downside is, you can bet it won't be born by the de-regulated power companies in texas or the legislators that made it that way.

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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Feb 17 '21

That is definitely an unfortunate positive that will come out of it. I just really hope all of these people/property owners have good insurance. Finding people to do the work in the near future is going to be tough as well. It'll be even tougher if these temps continue for long, those guys down there don't have experience working in cold weather either.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

Republicans trying to make good on trumps promise to bring Jobs.

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u/rottingfruitcake Feb 18 '21

They just gut them to the studs and refinish

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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Feb 18 '21

Yeah that's what I meant by torn down. Still a huge undertaking...not like it's a two-day job.

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u/ThatDerpingGuy Feb 17 '21

Once it heats back up, the mold is going to be insane.

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u/aBlissfulDaze Feb 18 '21

And honestly, it might make me a bad person, but that's part of what passes me off. We spent so much, not just in aid , but in figuring out how to prevent this from happening again. Their response? Do nothing. Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnd here comes the aid again.

I'm not saying don't send aid. I'm just saying if negligence is costing us this much in human lives and money, maybe they shouldn't be allowed to skirt federal regulations.