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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.

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.

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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.

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On top of that, icy roads caused traffic incidents and people are now advised to avoid traveling as much as they can.

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Dan Buczynski
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like standard Republican bs to me. They'll start blaming antifa and windmills in 3...2...1...

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GirlFriday
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are blaming the Green New Deal for it, even though it hasn't been passed and isn't in effect and hasn't even been finalized.

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Kathryn Baylis
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, Russia did something similar to that and sold public roads and utilities, etc to the oligarchs. They did nothing to improve those services. In fact, they got much much worse. Neglected and allowed to crumble, in many cases. So, privatization is not the answer. The answer is for those with the means to pay their fair share of taxes, which is the revenue that pays for public services. Been robbed and want a cop? Tax revenue pays their salary. House burning down and need the Fire Department to put it out? Tax revenue pays their salaries. Need an ambulance to get to the Emergency Room? Taxes at least used to pay for paramedics and ambulances. You want these services—-and the wealthy take as much advantage of them as the poor—-when you need them? Pay your damn taxes, one-percenters. The rest of us do.

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Analyn Lahr
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think my aunt runs one of those companies. She lives in Keller, last I heard. Big house. And the way she gets employees is totally set up like a pyramid scheme.

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Cee Mor
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and the price of electricity just went up 10,000%, guess who's gonna pay for that, to private companies?

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kmoney909
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wholesale prices went up by that much. Most people don’t pay that and any electricity consumer not part of the geographic area of a co-op or muni is free to choose a flat rate per kWh contract from retailers.

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kmoney909
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And even with wind power at half capacity that’s still ~2x the wind power available in California. -25k mW versus only 5.8 for CA.

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kmoney909
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BoredPanda, this pure garbage propaganda is not based on facts and the individual doesn’t even live in Texas. Hell it’s not even funny...

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kmoney909
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This clown is as bad as Trump and Qanon with platitudes, assumptions and no facts The winterization standard as authored by the NERC for the so called “national grid” following an investigation into 2011 winter storms is NOT mandatory. The winterization of our power plants would have prevented this - but since that standard at the federal level isn’t mandatory per the NERC, the notion that it would have been different is just false. https://www.nerc.net/standardsreports/standardssummary.aspx Texas isn’t the only place to use an ISO - the “privatization” you are citing. Which by the way California has one, as does the Midwest and the Northeast. And “deregulation” has zero to do with safety or emissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_electricity_market?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_transmission_organization_(North_America)?wprov=sfti1

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

POS green windmills, made out of OIL, quit working!!!! Antifa is f*****g scared to come to Texas. Libs need to keep out of our business, stay in their Mom’s basements and stay the hell away from Texas because we don’t want you, don’t need you, and wish for you to stay in your poor ass, I’ll run cities that have zero laws!!!! Bleeding heart idiots!

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kmoney909
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. Read the NERC standards. NERC authors the mandatory standards enforced by the FERC for a “national grid.” Winterization, is not yet mandatory for the federal grid. And deregulation of electricity in Texas has zero to do with this sort of thing anyways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_electricity_market?wprov=sfti1

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Emma
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true. For Gid's sake why dont you people check your facts . I am so tired if the dumming down of Anericans.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lessee, regulation, privatization, isolation - isn't that the BEDROCK of republicanism?

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kmoney909
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, he’s a gas-lighter worse than Trump. Deregulation has nothing to do with safety, reliability or emissions. Being exempt from the FERC by not crossing state lines means nothing. The standard for winterization which would have prevented this is not mandatory per the NERC - to be enforced by the FERC. And privatization? More than half of the grids are run by a private entity known as an ISO. CALIFORNIA has one.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They even privatized the networks?! Privatization of the production is acceptable (provided you are sure the government can produce enough in case of emergency anyway), but the networks... Some services are too important and too complex to let private corporations manage them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Private electrical grids are not really the issue. MS, AL, and GA all have regulated private power companies that own the grids in the respective service territory. No major issues and fast reaponse to the severe weather as these companies answer to both the shareholders (most of whom are employees or clients) and the state PSC which regulates how they operate and how much they can charge.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It wasn't the coal plants that failed to work. I'm a HUGE supporter of wind farms, but this post is such BS that boredpanda oughtta be ashamed of itself.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That caption is spot on. We don't like socialism when it helps others, but when WE benefit from it--

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just buy a shovel and keep it around for next time. They also work well as giant dustpans.

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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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m a Canadian in “exile” in the Caribbean right now. Am I still allowed to laugh at this?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BP title: Ignorant idiot is trying to be witty, gets brutally shut down.

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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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In missori that would be a freshly plowed road..we got feel like neg 20 w 4 inches of pure powder snow

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.)

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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."

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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"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."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Atlanta when we get even just a light dusting of snow. Everybody stampedes to the grocery store for milk.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When the first comment has 8 downvotes...even thought it isn't offensive...

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*in Jerry Seinfeld's Voice *what's The Deal With Texans And Cold Weather?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

plz do you live in texas we literally tried to break each other if we were stressed we would huddles with our guns

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

thats obviously is right wing propaganda. dunking on wind turbines instead of their f****d up privatized power grid and on masks.

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