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Bet they pull themselves out of this by their bootstraps and don't ask for any federal aid!
You got this privately owned power grid! Prove us all wrong that you suck and the people who vote in the republicans who allow this to continue have the intelligence of a bag of Quikrete.
You saw Texas and made a sweeping assumption because you can't think further than "Texas bad". The government is literally passing bills trying to make sure our votes don't count in solidly blue Harris county.
But fuck me and the rest of the residents of Houston I guess. Since rural areas rule the state everyone in Houston can just fucking die.
Edit: At least a couple of people really do want me and the rest of Houston to just die. This in response to a brain dead comment about a grid that has nothing to do with the current outages because the transmission lines are down. Are they supposed to shoot electricity directly to people's houses through the air?
By all means fuck the other half of the state under voter suppression right!? Houston is so blue that Harris County is the primary reason for their voter suppression. Do go on with your generalizations that make you feel strong and powerful by lumping everyone in a large geographical region together. Especially great character to do so on the premise of people's suffering.
If you actually read the article, it says they are receiving federal aid
That's the joke.
But I thought that after the disastrous winter a few years ago, Texas politicians would take action to ensure the reliability of their power grid? How could this be?
Oh, wait, their leadership spent all their time engaged in stupid culture-war bullshit like bussing migrants and deliberately drowning them with barbed wire and passing any number of bills that didn't look out for the well being of their constituents. Holy fuck! I'm so disillusioned. I never thought in a million years that this would happen again.
You reap what you sow, you fucks. And to all the progressive people in Texas who voted against the shits that did this to you, my heart goes out to you.
I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I've grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they've had.
This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
There are no regulations they're circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn't help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.
Interesting take. Noted.