Houston storm: At least 5 killed, more than 600,000 without power
Houston storm: At least 5 killed, more than 600,000 without power
At least five people were killed when a powerful storm tore through Houston on Thursday night, officials said.
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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.
Houston has more Democratic citizens than Republican. Their current mayor is a Democrat, and they voted for the Democratic nominated President in the last four elections. Austin is very similar. They’re blue islands in the red state, living under the oppressive reign of Abbott.
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.
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?
I hope you guys are all alright man. So I feel bad making a joke about this "Are they supposed to shoot electricity directly to people's houses through the air? ". Think that would be solar panels and batteries, sending excess back to the grid. So long as the roof was still there, the panels would be there for those houses hopefully. Then you can at least go to some of the houses in the neighborhood that have power when it gets to hot or to get a warm shower.
The future may hold neighborhoods having a local grid between their houses, so they can supply each other, and then send excess back to the main grid. Could effectivley keep large area power outages from being an issue, especially in natural disasters.
You bring up a really good point. This has told me it's about damn time that I quit putting off getting solar on my place. I've put it off because I've got everything except the house paid off and didn't want to take on more debt. But I'm just super lucky that my neighborhood is fine and I personally didn't lose electricity for long at all. I actually didn't know how bad it was until last night.
Me and mine are good. I've got friends and their kids who have no electricity set up in my extra bedroom and in the living room. They're staying until they get electricity back.
I appreciate the well wishes. Don't feel bad about the joke at all because it's pretty solid and had a helpful side effect.
If you actually read the article, it says they are receiving federal aid
That's the joke.