Over the long weekend, Texas and other places in the US have had a random spell of extremely cold weather.
As you can imagine, for a region that doesn't see snow at all, up to eight inches of it is somewhat of an anomaly. And it did cause a great deal of disturbances, with power outages and ongoing rescue operations.
Plus, the National Weather Service (NWS) stated more than 150 million Americans were now under winter storm warnings, which makes it all the more stressful for Texans and other residents alike.
But some people on social media are finding the Texas snow idea somewhat of a meme source since these two things sound like the least compatible thing on the planet. Meanwhile, other Twitter users have already apologized for poking fun at the Texas snowstorm.
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The unprecedented winter storm has been everything but funny as it continues to wreak havoc on Texas and other places across the US. Normally winter-averse cities have been suffering from freezing cold because the jet stream has changed and ushered Arctic air above the US and Canada borders.
The National Weather Service (NWS) announced that more than 150 million people were under a winter storm warning, winter weather advisory, or ice storm warning in 25 states, from southern Texas to northern Maine. The widespread storm has caused about 11 deaths which were reported in Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana.
Snowing In Texas
Anti-government people sing a different tune when they need government services.
The storm also caused a lot of concerning disturbances, leaving Texas and surrounding states in crisis. First, the high demand for electricity in the state has caused the power grid to fail. Rolling blackouts left 4.3 million people in freezing temperatures without electricity.
Rolling blackouts have been imposed in some areas to conserve power for hospitals, police, and fire stations, leaving over 4.3 million people without electricity. In addition, the Sunday storm knocked out almost half of the state's wind power capacity that makes up one of the main sources of the state’s electricity.
On top of that, icy roads caused traffic incidents and people are now advised to avoid traveling as much as they can.
Texas Government Is All About Profit Over People
Sounds like standard Republican bs to me. They'll start blaming antifa and windmills in 3...2...1...
It's Not Socialism When I Need It
That caption is spot on. We don't like socialism when it helps others, but when WE benefit from it--
They Should Try To Shoot The Snow
Just buy a shovel and keep it around for next time. They also work well as giant dustpans.
Texas’ wind power crisis in Arctic temperatures led some conservatives to blame wind energy for the state’s wind power outage. But in reality, freezing weather posed a problem to other forms of power generation too, like natural gas and coal-fired power plants.
Texas
I genuinely think all the idiot trumpers, and the likes of MTG, Cruz, Boebert and their ilk SHOULD all move to Texas and sucede. See how far ‘Texas First’ got them on the world stage.
Texas Just Needs To Pull Itself Up By The Bootstraps
Yup, Texas bureaucrats have the ability to show us bootstrapping in action (I.e. asking the federal government to declare their bootstraps broken so they can get help).
Some Explanations
BP title: Ignorant idiot is trying to be witty, gets brutally shut down.
According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, “The ability of some companies that generate the power has been frozen.” The strain on Texas’ energy system has risen even higher, with Texans using more energy to heat their homes than ever. ERCOT reported that the state reached record winter power consumption on Sunday evening.
Luckily, 20 hours ago, Greg Abbott tweeted some much-needed good news about the snow crisis in Texas. “UPDATE: 400,000 more homes had power restored this morning. Expect more during the day,” he tweeted.
Silver Lining
Living In Texas Like
If you never get snow, then you don't have snow plows, snow shovels, salt trucks, snow tires, etc. How are they supposed to "Just move the snow out of the way"? (Edit: I get that these are jokes. I'm just saying, as someone who has lived in the South my whole life, I can not tell you how many times I have had people who moved here from colder climates say things like this in total seriousness. Like full on angry rants about how stupid and incompetent we are because we don't have snow plows at the ready for the snow that hardly ever happens.)
Nature Is Healing
On top of that, Greg Abbott has issued an official statement about an order to investigate ERCOT and its “immediate transparency.” According to the statement, “Far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather. This is unacceptable."
Snow In Texas
Mismatched pajamas and a hoodie... official outfit of Walmart’s everywhere.
My Mood Today
Do people from Maine feel the same when they are stranded in a cursed forest or an old mansion in which an entire family unexplicably disappeared a few centuries ago?
To Those Making Fun
Those people don’t understand the concept of being used to something. Countries like Canada, Russia etc. are used to a lot of snow so they’re prepared and know how to handle it. That doesn’t apply to Texas, so of course Texas struggles right now.
"Reviewing the preparations and decisions by ERCOT is an emergency item so we can get a full picture of what caused this problem and find long-term solutions," Abbott added. "I thank my partners in the House and Senate for acting quickly on this challenge, and I will work with them to enhance Texas’ electric grid and ensure that our state never experiences power outages like this again."
Socialism, Texas Style
It's Bad
Seriously, How Do People Live In This?
A Thousand Years From Now
Texas.exe Has Stopped Working
Atlanta when we get even just a light dusting of snow. Everybody stampedes to the grocery store for milk.
Yesterday There Was 80% Chance Of Snow But Now It’s Only 50%
*in Jerry Seinfeld's Voice *what's The Deal With Texans And Cold Weather?
plz do you live in texas we literally tried to break each other if we were stressed we would huddles with our guns
F In The Chat For Texas
The jokes are funny, but this is a real picture of what ms happening. Yellow m & m is gonna pull his fellow m&m up by those bootstraps
Thank Goodness
thats obviously is right wing propaganda. dunking on wind turbines instead of their f****d up privatized power grid and on masks.
My nephew and his wife live in Austin with their newborn son. Once some generation came back online, power was routed to major downtown areas to light them up for the cameras and news feeds to make the politicians appear responsive. No one could get to work in city offices anyway because Texas doesn’t have armies of snow plows, and ever since the pandemic, most professionals work from home/anywhere. And major business areas already have their own backup generating capacity. You get what you vote for. Their home is still without power for fours days now.
this is why the pity party saying this isn't a joke sounds dumb. you get what you vote for, is there any other state suffering this badly from a few inches of snow? I'm genuinely asking
So everyone in Texas voted the same??
Petra Schaap - that's how democracy works. You will get very large numbers of people who sadly are in the minority but who are very unhappy with the outcome.
Here in New Orleans we got a few days of cold (sub-freezing threshold) and Entergy asked us to conserve electricity and warned of (planned) rolling blackouts. Didn't actually happen, but we also didn't get snow. If we got snow, we'd be as miserable as Texas I'm sure. Similar red state politics, unfortunately.
No... But then again, when Sandy hit NYC it was called a "national disaster" while on the gulf coast they don't even close schools for piddly little Cat3 hurricanes. Where you love makes a huge difference on how prepared you are for specific natural events. I'm wondering how many jokes people in Oklahoma would make if Toronto was hit by a F5 tornado.
Better yet Bianca look at which parts of Texas are doing ok despite the weather. Ill give everyone a hint. It's the one part of Texas that's connected to the Western grid system. The most frustrating thing about this whole thing is that most Texans believe this was due to frozen wind turbines. As if a state that's floating on an ocean of oil is somehow dependent on a few poorly winterized wind mills. Nothing will change from this, Texans will continue to trust the same failed policies.
Let me start this off by saying this is a terrible thing to joke about. People have DIED becuase of this storm. Buildings in Texas are not built for freezing weather. I doubt that states like Vermont or Maine would do very well if they were getting the weather that Texas is used to. People would probably die of heat exhaustion or die trying to stay cool, just like Texans have died trying to stay warm.
Yeah, I’m here in Texas rn and it is sad
As of yesterday morning, 73% of the continental United States is covered with snow. This, my conspiracy theorist friends who have been telling me that the government under Biden is controlling the weather, is evidence of climate change.
Why has what amounts to a natural disaster to this area been turned into a joke? Just because Texas is a red state? (Although Austin is very blue, so the whole “you get what you vote for comment” for the Austin area was interesting). Let’s have post making fun of Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina then.
Because Texans are mostly right-wing anarchists while BP is mostly left-wing nutjobs. Same (although reversed, of course) as reading the comments on fox news when anything mentioning DC, regulation of any kind or California comes up. They can't act like adults anymore than a room full of unsupervised kindergartners can leave a candy bar alone. And every single one of them on both sides will blame it all on everyone else. And every single one of them is to blame for our real issues. If people would instill a sense of respect for others in their children, every one of our problems could be fairly easily solved.
It's because of the recent Secession attitude, which grew from the same source the deregulated, independent power grid came from - in other words, we're pointing out the irony in a way that, maybe, Texas will note and, maybe, something will be done to prevent future disaster. But then, this happened in 2011 and 1989, too, and nothing's been done. The thing is, Texas will get help from the Federal Government because they need it, and the resources behind that help come from the rest of the Union - just like during Hurricane Harvey, or the 2015 floods, or the 2011 grid collapse, or the 2007 floods, and so forth. That's a big part of being one of the United States. So, when Texas blusters and says, "Screw you! We'll Secede!", the rest of us kinda resent it, and bring it up when the benefits of *not* seceding are tapped into.
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We're still a little salty because red terrorists tried to destroy our republic last month. F**k your feelings
I do appreciate you seem to be a fellow Texan. Build each other up, don't tear us apart. You're pushing people away (but not as far as another state) so learn to be civil.
That'll show us. Thanks, Tina.
My nephew and his wife live in Austin with their newborn son. Once some generation came back online, power was routed to major downtown areas to light them up for the cameras and news feeds to make the politicians appear responsive. No one could get to work in city offices anyway because Texas doesn’t have armies of snow plows, and ever since the pandemic, most professionals work from home/anywhere. And major business areas already have their own backup generating capacity. You get what you vote for. Their home is still without power for fours days now.
this is why the pity party saying this isn't a joke sounds dumb. you get what you vote for, is there any other state suffering this badly from a few inches of snow? I'm genuinely asking