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It gets cold in Texas, especially north Texas. I never claimed otherwise. It regularly snows in Dallas, but it does not regularly snow in Houston.
by nickysielicki 6y ago
It gets cold in Texas, especially north Texas. I never claimed otherwise. It regularly snows in Dallas, but it does not regularly snow in Houston.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI listed half a dozen times when it got well below freezing in Houston in December alone. Don't move the goal posts to snow, you said that freezing temps in Houston were unprecedented in the modern era, which is just simply not true.
- nickysielicki 6y agoI said that it doesn’t get below freezing in Houston every year. Certainly not for days at a time.
- ashtonkem 6y ago> I said that it doesn’t get below freezing in Houston every year. Certainly not for days at a time. Yeah, but you did not say that. You said: > It gets below freezing every year in Texas. But in the biggest city in Texas -- Houston, with a metro population of 7 million, it does not. This is unprecedented in the modern era. If you want to change that to say "this is an unusually long and wide freeze across the entire state", or "this is an unprecedented power outage" that's arguably true. But you didn't actually say that, you said that freezing temps in Houston were unprecedented, which is objectively not true. Heck, a long freeze knocking off the Texan power grid isn't even unprecedented in this century. A similar thing happened back in 2011[0]. 0 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ercot-rollingblackouts/texas-weathers-rolling-blackouts-as-mercury-drops-idUSTRE71213420110203 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ercot-rollingblackouts/te...
- nickysielicki 6y agoI definitely worded it poorly, but I promise you I meant to communicate what I claim to have meant to communicate.