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Let's take a look at the report... https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/SMOC_FebWinterStorm_MortalitySurvReport_12-30-21.pdf https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news
by salawat 4y ago
Let's take a look at the report...
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/SMOC_FebWinterStorm_MortalitySurvReport_12-30-21.pdf https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/SMOC_FebWinterStorm_...
I'll be damned, lookat that.
Most in Metro areas that have completely mismanaged their grids! I figured Austin would probably be the the worst given I got to see that idiocy with my own eyes.
If you weren't in an Urban center, odds were you were hunkered down, and even then, you had people like me that were calling around checking on people to make sure they were alright. I'd hazard a guess there may have been some factors at play where many people didn't have sufficient experience with cold weather ops to know what kinds of community efforts to organize.
And besides which, we Texans can be a stubborn bunch, at times to our own detriment.
Other boots on the ground reports: Dallas had power suspiciously seemingly divided along income boundaries. (Most affordable housing areas were load shed while higher value residential areas kept their lights on).
Austin's water system bit the dust. So did Lockhart's.
I don't want to hear a thing about it from an out of stater. Especially since frigging ERCOT/The PUC was apparently mostly run by them. One getting caught assuring Wall Street their energy futures would be safe.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/wall-street-profited-off-texas-blackouts/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/wall-street-profi...
And they were appointed by that idiot Abbott. Bloody corruption and incompetence at it's finest.
- ceejayoz 4y ago“The deaths were mostly where lots of people live” is a take, I suppose.