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minnixA to Texas@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Houston-area residents frustrated as they enter sixth day without power and air conditioning in punishing heat

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minnixA to Texas@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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Hundreds of thousands of southeast Texas residents are entering the sixth day in a row suffering brutal heat without air conditioning and many are scrambling to find cool shelters, food, safe drinking water and health care resources.
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  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    We mustn’t bury the power lines tho. That’s too expensive! 🙄

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      I mean you don’t have to. We typically don’t bury them in Florida. But important power lines are held up by thick metal or concrete poles.

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        Canada laughs in wooden poles

        • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          More like Canada laughs in not getting hit by hurricanes

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            Well most of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scota get hit by the tails of hurricanes

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    That’ll show dem liebrals.

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      Yeah I still don’t understand this one. They separated their states power from the rest of the power grid because… liberal hate? That doesn’t add up to me but then what little I know of Texas never adds up. Outside of some owning the libs rhetoric what the fuck reason did they do that for??

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        supposedly, it’s because Texas wants to be as independent as possible various articles I’ve found tend to agree. Also because fuck federal regulations I guess. I dunno, fuck Texas.

        https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/ercot-texas-own-power-grid-interconnection-18693934.php#:~:text=Texas is the lone state,largely to avoid federal regulation.

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    2024 Gulf Coast Spin the Bottle is off to a spicy start.

    Remember, this is because god hates you and nothing to do with climate change. If we can just do away with NOAA, we wouldn’t have Hurricanes anymore.

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    Wow texas['s energy infrastructure] fuckin SUCKS.

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