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.
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.