At least 21 dead as brutal cold
from historic storm ravages Texas
New York Post,
by
Yaron Steinbuch
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/17/2021 9:51:33 AM
The death toll from the historic winter storm sweeping across large swaths of the US has increased to at least 21–as over 3 million people in Texas remain without power, including 1.4 million in the Houston metropolitan area, according to reports. In addition to the Lone Star state, the brutal storm claimed lives in Louisiana, Kentucky and Missouri, shuttered COVID-19 inoculation centers and hindered vaccine supplies. No relief is expected until the weekend, officials said. Four people were killed in a house fire in Sugar Land, Texas, where the power was out, according to police and local media. In South Austin, hundreds
Brightside, kills the bugs, spiders too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GO3 2/17/2021 10:04:32 AM (No. 698980)
Yes #1, was just going to mention that. We didn't have much of a winter last year and in the spring and summer the bugs were a real nuisance. Maybe this will reduce their numbers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 2/17/2021 10:07:25 AM (No. 698984)
All the deaths caused by unreliability of green energy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 10:29:02 AM (No. 699012)
The real story isn't the brutal cold, it's the brutal leftists forcing those damned useless ultra-expensive windmills on everyone, and finding out that they are so unreliable that people die for lack of power.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
navybrat 2/17/2021 10:31:43 AM (No. 699013)
This is not a laughing or joking matter. People are in danger from extreme cold. People have died. Texas would have the capacity to have standby equipment if not for the incompetent federal government not allowing it. The green ideology and political correctness is killing people. Open the Keystone pipeline, keep fracking and drilling and let us be energy independent. I do not want an electric car. I want heat for warmth and a way to heat a can of soup.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 2/17/2021 10:38:29 AM (No. 699024)
Where is FEMA to help Texans? FEMA has generators,blankets housing to help during this kind of crisis but slo’ Jo knows TX didn’t vote for him. No help from the Commie Democrats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/17/2021 10:41:15 AM (No. 699031)
Leftists Lied - - - People Died
Just wait until Fightin' Roy Blunt sinks his teeth into this! Woo-hoo!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TXknitter 2/17/2021 10:57:24 AM (No. 699053)
Oh my #6, you are right! Where is FEMA? I am hearing reports from friends all over South Texas. Their cities and towns are slow as molasses opening up warming places, food bank officials having to be nagged to open up and get with it, etc. The essential workers are exhausted. Large churches in my parent’s community are being asked to PLEASE help and open up. The electrical outages and now lack of potable water is getting dangerous. Texas is overwhelmed and the federal government should be helping !!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 2/17/2021 11:11:01 AM (No. 699077)
There is no “alternative” energy so far that can survive without subsidies. When will the “Woke” folks wake up? I suspect never.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 11:41:02 AM (No. 699121)
"Alternative energy" means 'stupid ideas which don't work reliably and are too expensive to even consider without massive government subsidies.'
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GO3 2/17/2021 1:31:15 PM (No. 699338)
#8, you are right. Outside of the stupid wind turbines freezing up, local response is awful. In an earlier comment I said the states built up emergency response for a decade after 911 and proceeded to squander all of the assets and expertise. This was most evident in NY during the Covid "crises." Not only has Texas bowed to the greenie demands of the alternative energy scam, it is playing catch up with emergency response. Snowplows from TxDoT are working the Interstates and the state highways, but I saw exactly one grader in Abilene yesterday. I don't expect the state or cities to buy a fleet of snowplows that sit idle for five to ten years, but I do expect a contingency contract to be budgeted and put in place for times such as this. Today on the news Abbott vowed to get to the bottom of the ERCOT failure, but he, the legislators, and agency heads need to take a long look in the mirror. Individual preparedness is a must, but some things are beyond our control.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
downnout 2/17/2021 1:49:55 PM (No. 699390)
No doubt AOC thinks they deserved it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 1:52:16 PM (No. 699398)
I was going to say "time to buy Generac stock" - then I looked at it. YIKES!
In Jan, 2018 it was ~$52.
In Jan, 2019 it was ~$54.
In Jan, 2020, it was ~$99 (doubled in a year)
In Feb, 2020, it is ~$350.
HOLY COW. I should have bought $100K of that in Jan. 2019. It'd be worth ~$600K now.
But, "high as hell and going higher" is an old saying.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 2:53:44 PM (No. 699492)
I'll bet that Generac whole house generators have been selling like potato chips in California since people woke up one day and discovered that the power does NOT come from the wall socket when you have lunatic envirowhackos in charge.
And now Texas discovers it, too. I spoke with my financial advisor a few minutes ago. Generac is going crazy, making a fortune, stock going through the roof. Up 600% in the last 2 years.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cartcart 2/17/2021 3:41:40 PM (No. 699560)
Biden should issue an EO and outlaw ice storms and take away the powerful National Ice Storm Association’s hold on these events. This many deaths is akin to a school shooting.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Mike22 2/17/2021 6:45:38 PM (No. 699740)
Yes, generators have been selling like potato chips on Superbowl weekend in California.
Texas will surely follow. Idiotic green ideas. The Chinese leadership must be rolling on the floor laughing at the stupid leftist politicians and the really stupid people that vote for them (60 million real, 26 million imaginary).
Is the cold in Texas historic? Is it true that it is "colder than ever before in history"? Can we hear from some long term Texans? And how is Texit going? You should probably team up the the Jefferson people in Northeast California. And the Superior people in the upper peninsula of Michigan. And why isn't there a succession movement in western NY state?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/17/2021 6:53:28 PM (No. 699748)
13/14 I have been toying with installing a b/u gen for years. Since I have no gas now, I'd have to drop a tank OR go Diesel either way it's something I ponder each and every budget session.
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