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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Murica!!
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.
Everything Is Bigger In Texa- Wait, What?
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.
Just Sayin... Eh!
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...
Isn't Made For The Cold
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--
Don't Believe The Republican Liars
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.
No Hate To Texas
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.
Snow-In-Texas-Jokes
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.
Stay Safe Fellow Texans!
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."
That Comparison
What Do We Do
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.
But its more about the fact that Texas went off the power grid or whatever idk that many of the details
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This is false.... Where I live in Canada it is -17 Celsius right now, but in August it will be like 36 celcius, which is Texas hot... I can handle the heat more than you can handle the cold.
yesterday in part of Texas it was -3 c, last summer it got to 47 c. I would love to have a 36 c day in the summer, that is a springtime temperature. Spring only lasts about 2 weeks here
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Girl, I was born and raised in Texas and have lived in the rock tundra of northeastern North Dakota for 5 years. If there is anything I've learned, both extreme sides are assholes. 'Ohhh, you could never survive in MY weather!' Shut up. Just because it gets colder here doesn't mean it doesn't suck there and vice versa with the heat. I've experienced winter in both locales and summers in both locales. Both suck donkeys in their own, unique ways.
I remember the memes from people from places like Texas, Florida, Southern California etc, mocking when Europe/The UK had that awful months long heatwave a few years back. Most of Europe, and especially the UK, isn't built for those high temperatures we had, many were suffering from heatstroke and some people even died. Same way Texas isn't built for freezing temperatures. I'm not callous enough to say "haha, karma" exactly, but I hope that next time I complain about the heat as a Brit I won't be met with a mocking response. xP but in all seriousness I hope texans stay safe!
Most people could survive a Texas summer, it just seems that most Texans can't seem to survive a mild winter.
Lol@ Texas summer. AC house>AC garage>AC truck>AC parking garage>AC store/work>AC parking garage>AC truck>AC garage>AC house. Repeat. (Yes, it is awful if you have to actually be outside, but this is how a Houston guy explained it to me)
Yes but if they had a proper electrical grid or solar panels they would have air conditioning.
Once lived in Texas for a year in a travel trailer, long before AC thought about, I was sure death would be better than Texas in summer.
I hate our summers. I will never forget my first year of college I met a girl who was from Kenya and she flat out told me it was hotter in Texas than in Kenya. It was like 110 degrees F. that day, but felt like 120 because of the humidity.
Not to pick nits, but at some parts of Europe we have -15C/5F at the moment and it's not that bad. On the bright side, we'll have 16C/ 61F next week. So back to the question, is US going to sign the Kyoto protocol from 1997?
I'm from Scotland so nae need. Sending sympathy on behalf of Braemar (-25 last week) and the land of wee midges.
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she's not wrong. I would love to travel to mexico sometime. only I never will cuz it's too hot
No. Some people from the colder states can stand heat well. Our summers up here can get pretty hot. Not as hot as texas, but some people could probably handle it.
You are right. I could not survive a Texas summer nor what I want to as i like to actually spend time outdoors in the summer. We get heat waves here in Michigan and what do we do when they happen? Turn on the AC and life goes on, we don't ask for federal aid because of it. There's well over a foot of snow on the ground right now And when you know how to handle Winter it's either beautiful or a nuisance depending on your point of view. Its certainly not a disaster lol
As someone living in the Phoenix area I say "Texas summer!?! Bring it on!!!"
I grew up in the upper Midwest. I have survived scorching summers with no AC and brutal winters. Don't know how I'd manage in an earthquake or flood though.
Try the Midwest, we don’t get REAL winters usually but rn we have 10 inches of snow and it’s 4 degrees out. We get into the 90s in the summer.
I live in Ohio/Great Lakes/Snowbelt region. We get blustery cold winters and disgustingly hot and sweaty summers where people die w/o AC.
I'd imagine it's not too difficult with ACs everywhere ... we get something like 110°F max where I live but I've never seen an AC anywhere except big stores. I also assume Texas is much dryer, and our humidity makes it much more awful.
Texas is a big state, and most of the bigger cities are closer to the gulf and get extremely humid. If you're thinking of a dry heat, you need to go two states over to Arizona, where 110 degrees is a dream. In Phoenix it gets so hot, the streets melt. But summer is also hurricane season, so Texas tends to deal with massive flooding in the lower portions and tornado season in the western and northern regions. IMO Texas has the worst extreme weather majority of the year. Winter is supposed to be their mild, quiet season.
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Where I live we get both extremes. 120+ degrees F in the summer and low teens in the winter. We also get hurricane force winds. Just last weekend I was driving home from a road trip and saw 3 tractor trailers that had been blown off the road. Tell me again how I couldn't survive a Texas winter.
Heat really isn’t difficult to handle, Texas just doesn’t want it to seem like they failed
y'all think your texas summers are bad? try california. we don't got the humidity, but if you want heat so bad you can't go outside, we got you! 118 degrees F. In september. 90 degrees from July to November.
What are you talking about texas summers are much worse , and usually go on until October - November sometimes. Have you been to Texas in the summer??
Load More Replies..."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."
The Great State Of Texas May Have Earned A New Flag
Sorry, Texas Is Closed
Socialism, Texas Style
Texans...
It's Bad
Spent Way Too Long On This
Seriously, How Do People Live In This?
Can't Shoot The Snow Away
Halp!!
A Thousand Years From Now
Can We Say That Electricity From Texas Is Dumb?
Texas.exe Has Stopped Working
Atlanta when we get even just a light dusting of snow. Everybody stampedes to the grocery store for milk.
Looks Correct
Yesterday There Was 80% Chance Of Snow But Now It’s Only 50%
The Universe Required Correction
*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
What To Wear
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
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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.
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Guys there are people freezing to death in TX right now. They had to call in trucks to haul out the dead bodies. Apartment complexes are catching on fire because people are desperate. Their homes are made for the heat, not the snow, their insulation is a joke. People are burning anything they can to try to get warm enough to survive, and some of what they're burning is poisoning them. I don't care about the politics I care about the people. Most cities in TX don't have salt trucks for roads, they don't have the road salt and what little they might have isn't enough. Their pipes are bursting across the state and the waters toxic because the water treatment plant are frozen. I don't care about the politics, karam, or otherwise, no one deserves what's happening to TX right now.
We are one of the lucky ones who still have power, but we haven't had water for 3 days now. The grocery stores are either closed due to having no power or they are empty because people have been panic buying. We as a state are REALLY not prepared for this kind of thing.
I've lived without water and electricity and it isn't funny. Panic buying should be prevented somehow before it starts - restrictions on the numbers of each item people can buy (based on number per household so it is equitable). You always see some poor elderly person staring at empty shelves in scenarios like this and that's heart-breaking. Feeling for you Texas!
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This thread is absolutely disgusting. Freak, uncharacteristic weather anywhere does harm. You think West Texas was laughing at California when the state was burning because they couldn't handle some dry weather? This mess isn't caused by 1" of snow. It's caused by ice storms that would shut down Boston or Buffalo. This is like Seattle lauging at Iowa because they can't handle 30 inches of rain in one season. Or Lubbock laughing at California because they only got 2 inches of rain in March and the whole state burned down.
To all you right-wingers wanting to pwn liberal snowflakes - you just got pwned by a bunch of snowflakes. I know it's not funny for those without power, but in dark times like this we all need a larf.
What you would likely dismiss as a right wing nut job or something else rude. We all need each other, and both parties here could learn that.
Load More Replies... Texan here (name is obviously a joke) with a tornado shelter, tasty animals in the pasture and barns, packing on my hip and shotgun seat (named so for a reason, if you look at American history lol) for predators of the animal and human kind, and prepared for droughts. Thankful solar panels do the water pumping for me, so family and animals have made it through this. Rural or not, Texans pride themselves on being bootstrap folks. Preparing on a state level for something like this should appeal to us. We spend so much time and money preparing for a storm that will likely never come (ex: fancy firearms) but can't be bothered to prep for a storm that WILL come eventually? This was a wake up call to me to look at what else I'm missing and I feel for those who didn't have means (or Yankee friends in my case) to help prepare. We can all learn from each other.
Next the vortex moves a bit east, ushering in warm moisture laden air from the Gulf. Rain on top of rapidly melting snow and ice. Even though as a CA native, I have done a lot of grin and bear it about comments from certain states, this is probably what Hawaii would be like if they got a polar vortex. The big test now is what will TX do with this lesson?
I think the pileup in Dallas freaked out some people, there are too many good ol boys and gals who drive like they normally do, you know like idiots, and make it dangerous for others. I heard ambulances and fire trucks at least 3x yesterday taking my dogs out for walks.
I take it good ole boys is an insult or being dismissive? Please define and tell us how you're different than someone unprepared for one thing or another. Plank in your own eye...
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Well soem where offensive, everyonbe in dallas at least is furious with gov for the blocked grid thing and yeah we do not know how to drive in snow but y would we? And it IS dangerous to have our heat shut down in 3 degree weather and we are trying to make things right
I'm from Dallas and we're not all on board with the decisions politicians are making , you're right. Everyone here is not how this post is making us out to be
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Maybe I'm a dirty "socialist" but I always hold the opinion that a government should not be run like a business. A business can opt out of certain "upgrades" if the issue only occurs1% of the time. So it would just impact the topline on certain days, if not day. If a government is run that way, people die. Voters need to understand this before they scream about fiscal policies.
I likely differ on a lot politically lol but this is a good point. It's not all as cut and dry as political extremes like to make it.
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Widespread power cuts, people struggling with temperatures they're not accustomed to or prepared for (understandably so) and at least 21 dead. And it's not finished yet. Maybe it's just me but I don't think now is the time to be cracking jokes about Texans.
I'm at college in Pennsylvania now, but I'm from Texas. My mam and brother are still live in the RV and they haven't had running water for a couple days now. We can juke about a single snowflake, but when it's in the single digits it's not funny at all.
Load More Replies... Ok, how many of you here are in Texas right now in this weather?? Bc I am and most of us are not acting like this!! It’s sad seeing our animals suffer. It’s hard having to watch the trees fall down on top of our houses. The sound it makes is scary asf
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. They are unprepared because this has not happened on this scale before
I feel sorry for Texans, it's unusually cold here too. I realize they're just people like everyone else and we shouldn't make fun of them. But damn! Windmills caused the power outages? Ted Cruz? Deregulation? It's just to easy.
Why do ppl have to joke about this. Ppl have died here bc of the weather
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Im not from Texas but this is not funny. No matter who's fault this is, laughing at people in this situation is just wrong. And how the ef can you expect to have this handled correctly if this happens only once in 30 years? I'd say help now, laugh later.
It could be worse....you could have jerk politicians from other states making light of you're states situation and then preceding to vote against federal aid that Texans will be sorely needing.
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I don't really get why this problem must be turned into a joke? Sure they MAYBE are overreacting but still
For the record Texas deregulated so that it wouldn’t be so reliant on the federal government and to give business people more freedom. Texas just assumed that the businesses would do the right thing. Lack of regulation in Texas is why it’s so easy to set up a business here, but it is also why there are so many scams here. It’s difficult because on the one hand Texas wants people to have their freedom but Texas also wants them to be safe. Texas has chosen to give people freedom and trust that they’ll use it responsibly.
New Yorkers were devastated by Sandy, but I don't recall any jokes about them panicking over a piddly little Cat3 hurricane that they wouldn't even close schools for down here. Where you live plays a huge part in what disasters you are prepared for. Imagine if a F5 tornado hit Toronto... Would you think it would be appropriate for people in Oklahoma to make jokes about how stupid Toronto was to have been impacted by it so hard?
I’m in Oklahoma, it doesn’t bother us since we moved from Colorado in may, but, we’re still struggling considering my brother broke the microwave and the kitchen sink water pipe is frozen
Next summer, when they want to make fun of countries that have trouble dealing with a heatwave because they usually don't have heatwaves, remind the Texans among them of this snowpocalypse.
Welp...time to jack up insurance rates in Texas. All those burst pipes and water damage cause plenty of property damage.
Actually, there was a lot of laughter at Californians who didn't rake their leaves well enough. And this was for actual fire. So this Californian has no sympathy whatsoever here. This much trouble over a few inches of snow? Looks like you need better infrastructure and actual state taxes to pay for it with.
This article is not a good look. People are dealing with a serious situation, and best we can do is make fun of them? Not cool.
i'm not very proud to be texan anymore lol. i never was proud to be american but now my state? this is hilarious- what's next? my city? LMAO
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, traitor.
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This is seriously in bad taste BP , right now is not the time to be making jokes people are seriously in trouble right now . I am from a northern state so snow is nothing for us bit Texas no one has to prepare for this kind of stuff and they are suffering. My thoughts go out to them and all that are struggling right now.
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
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... Guys there are people freezing to death in TX right now. They had to call in trucks to haul out the dead bodies. Apartment complexes are catching on fire because people are desperate. Their homes are made for the heat, not the snow, their insulation is a joke. People are burning anything they can to try to get warm enough to survive, and some of what they're burning is poisoning them. I don't care about the politics I care about the people. Most cities in TX don't have salt trucks for roads, they don't have the road salt and what little they might have isn't enough. Their pipes are bursting across the state and the waters toxic because the water treatment plant are frozen. I don't care about the politics, karam, or otherwise, no one deserves what's happening to TX right now.
We are one of the lucky ones who still have power, but we haven't had water for 3 days now. The grocery stores are either closed due to having no power or they are empty because people have been panic buying. We as a state are REALLY not prepared for this kind of thing.
I've lived without water and electricity and it isn't funny. Panic buying should be prevented somehow before it starts - restrictions on the numbers of each item people can buy (based on number per household so it is equitable). You always see some poor elderly person staring at empty shelves in scenarios like this and that's heart-breaking. Feeling for you Texas!
Load More Replies... This thread is absolutely disgusting. Freak, uncharacteristic weather anywhere does harm. You think West Texas was laughing at California when the state was burning because they couldn't handle some dry weather? This mess isn't caused by 1" of snow. It's caused by ice storms that would shut down Boston or Buffalo. This is like Seattle lauging at Iowa because they can't handle 30 inches of rain in one season. Or Lubbock laughing at California because they only got 2 inches of rain in March and the whole state burned down.
To all you right-wingers wanting to pwn liberal snowflakes - you just got pwned by a bunch of snowflakes. I know it's not funny for those without power, but in dark times like this we all need a larf.
What you would likely dismiss as a right wing nut job or something else rude. We all need each other, and both parties here could learn that.
Load More Replies... Texan here (name is obviously a joke) with a tornado shelter, tasty animals in the pasture and barns, packing on my hip and shotgun seat (named so for a reason, if you look at American history lol) for predators of the animal and human kind, and prepared for droughts. Thankful solar panels do the water pumping for me, so family and animals have made it through this. Rural or not, Texans pride themselves on being bootstrap folks. Preparing on a state level for something like this should appeal to us. We spend so much time and money preparing for a storm that will likely never come (ex: fancy firearms) but can't be bothered to prep for a storm that WILL come eventually? This was a wake up call to me to look at what else I'm missing and I feel for those who didn't have means (or Yankee friends in my case) to help prepare. We can all learn from each other.
Next the vortex moves a bit east, ushering in warm moisture laden air from the Gulf. Rain on top of rapidly melting snow and ice. Even though as a CA native, I have done a lot of grin and bear it about comments from certain states, this is probably what Hawaii would be like if they got a polar vortex. The big test now is what will TX do with this lesson?
I think the pileup in Dallas freaked out some people, there are too many good ol boys and gals who drive like they normally do, you know like idiots, and make it dangerous for others. I heard ambulances and fire trucks at least 3x yesterday taking my dogs out for walks.
I take it good ole boys is an insult or being dismissive? Please define and tell us how you're different than someone unprepared for one thing or another. Plank in your own eye...
Load More Replies... Well soem where offensive, everyonbe in dallas at least is furious with gov for the blocked grid thing and yeah we do not know how to drive in snow but y would we? And it IS dangerous to have our heat shut down in 3 degree weather and we are trying to make things right
I'm from Dallas and we're not all on board with the decisions politicians are making , you're right. Everyone here is not how this post is making us out to be
Load More Replies... Maybe I'm a dirty "socialist" but I always hold the opinion that a government should not be run like a business. A business can opt out of certain "upgrades" if the issue only occurs1% of the time. So it would just impact the topline on certain days, if not day. If a government is run that way, people die. Voters need to understand this before they scream about fiscal policies.
I likely differ on a lot politically lol but this is a good point. It's not all as cut and dry as political extremes like to make it.
Load More Replies... Widespread power cuts, people struggling with temperatures they're not accustomed to or prepared for (understandably so) and at least 21 dead. And it's not finished yet. Maybe it's just me but I don't think now is the time to be cracking jokes about Texans.
I'm at college in Pennsylvania now, but I'm from Texas. My mam and brother are still live in the RV and they haven't had running water for a couple days now. We can juke about a single snowflake, but when it's in the single digits it's not funny at all.
Load More Replies... Ok, how many of you here are in Texas right now in this weather?? Bc I am and most of us are not acting like this!! It’s sad seeing our animals suffer. It’s hard having to watch the trees fall down on top of our houses. The sound it makes is scary asf
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. They are unprepared because this has not happened on this scale before
I feel sorry for Texans, it's unusually cold here too. I realize they're just people like everyone else and we shouldn't make fun of them. But damn! Windmills caused the power outages? Ted Cruz? Deregulation? It's just to easy.
Why do ppl have to joke about this. Ppl have died here bc of the weather
Load More Replies... Im not from Texas but this is not funny. No matter who's fault this is, laughing at people in this situation is just wrong. And how the ef can you expect to have this handled correctly if this happens only once in 30 years? I'd say help now, laugh later.
It could be worse....you could have jerk politicians from other states making light of you're states situation and then preceding to vote against federal aid that Texans will be sorely needing.
Load More Replies... I don't really get why this problem must be turned into a joke? Sure they MAYBE are overreacting but still
For the record Texas deregulated so that it wouldn’t be so reliant on the federal government and to give business people more freedom. Texas just assumed that the businesses would do the right thing. Lack of regulation in Texas is why it’s so easy to set up a business here, but it is also why there are so many scams here. It’s difficult because on the one hand Texas wants people to have their freedom but Texas also wants them to be safe. Texas has chosen to give people freedom and trust that they’ll use it responsibly.
New Yorkers were devastated by Sandy, but I don't recall any jokes about them panicking over a piddly little Cat3 hurricane that they wouldn't even close schools for down here. Where you live plays a huge part in what disasters you are prepared for. Imagine if a F5 tornado hit Toronto... Would you think it would be appropriate for people in Oklahoma to make jokes about how stupid Toronto was to have been impacted by it so hard?
I’m in Oklahoma, it doesn’t bother us since we moved from Colorado in may, but, we’re still struggling considering my brother broke the microwave and the kitchen sink water pipe is frozen
Next summer, when they want to make fun of countries that have trouble dealing with a heatwave because they usually don't have heatwaves, remind the Texans among them of this snowpocalypse.
Welp...time to jack up insurance rates in Texas. All those burst pipes and water damage cause plenty of property damage.
Actually, there was a lot of laughter at Californians who didn't rake their leaves well enough. And this was for actual fire. So this Californian has no sympathy whatsoever here. This much trouble over a few inches of snow? Looks like you need better infrastructure and actual state taxes to pay for it with.
This article is not a good look. People are dealing with a serious situation, and best we can do is make fun of them? Not cool.
i'm not very proud to be texan anymore lol. i never was proud to be american but now my state? this is hilarious- what's next? my city? LMAO
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, traitor.
Load More Replies... This is seriously in bad taste BP , right now is not the time to be making jokes people are seriously in trouble right now . I am from a northern state so snow is nothing for us bit Texas no one has to prepare for this kind of stuff and they are suffering. My thoughts go out to them and all that are struggling right now.
