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I said that it doesn’t get below freezing in Houston every year. Certainly not for days at a time.
by nickysielicki 6y ago
I 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.