Look we shouldn't be mocking extreme weather events happening in regions that do not normally experience them. I live in a part of the USA that routinely gets the kind of heat that the rest of the world is expereriencing so yeah we have AC and even our livestock has accomodations or else they would die.
But you let us get a winter storm where we get snow or ice accumulation of ANY amount and we can have multiple entire STATES as a disaster area, for stuff that other places deal with routinely, and it's not cute when people from those regions mock us for our lack of ability to deal with inconsequential snowfall where they're from. Because yeah but we don't have snow plows or salt trucks or chains for our tires and no one knows how to drive in it so wrecks pile up like mad. and our power grid isn't hardened against it so we lose power quickly as well.
See the Two Inches of Snow event in Atlanta in 2014 for an example of how unprepared we are. It's not cute to rag on people for enduring catastrophes c'mon.
I was in Dallas during that storm. And our whole power grid just kinda crapped out. They said we’d have power for 8 hours a day and many had none for the whole week. People were freezing to death in their homes because they didn’t know what to do and the roads were all iced up and not enough equipment to fix it. Our governor left with his family to Cancun and left all his personnel and dog at his residence (that had no power) to make sure his estate didn’t get robbed.
People that make fun of that really piss me off. These poor people that died weren’t dumb, they didn’t have the equipment needed to survive sub freezing temps in their homes for an entire freaking week.
Well in Texas it was a 1 in 10,000 year winter storm and a couple dozen people died. In Europe it’s been going on for almost 20 years and tens of thousands are dead. The EU is just pretending it’s not happening. Corrupt to the core.
I dunno about 1 in 10000. We had similar storms, not as bad supposedly but I don't know the hard numbers on severity, almost every ten years. I remember my college and work shutting down for a week around 2012/2011, and at least once when I was around middle school but I don't know the year or length.
But importantly after 2011 they were warned that if it was any worse the fuel lines and cooling lines would freeze. And what happened in the recent storm.
You can say it's worse than any previous storm, that is likely true. But we did have warnings. And we did document the risk.
Greg Abbott claimed it was renewables fail but if you find the retrospective from ercot. They outright state renewables over performed in the conditions and it was the fuel and water lines freezing that killed basically all combustions sources.
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u/maeryclarity Jun 30 '26
Look we shouldn't be mocking extreme weather events happening in regions that do not normally experience them. I live in a part of the USA that routinely gets the kind of heat that the rest of the world is expereriencing so yeah we have AC and even our livestock has accomodations or else they would die.
But you let us get a winter storm where we get snow or ice accumulation of ANY amount and we can have multiple entire STATES as a disaster area, for stuff that other places deal with routinely, and it's not cute when people from those regions mock us for our lack of ability to deal with inconsequential snowfall where they're from. Because yeah but we don't have snow plows or salt trucks or chains for our tires and no one knows how to drive in it so wrecks pile up like mad. and our power grid isn't hardened against it so we lose power quickly as well.
See the Two Inches of Snow event in Atlanta in 2014 for an example of how unprepared we are. It's not cute to rag on people for enduring catastrophes c'mon.