Maybe they're an especially egregious example because of how fucked up their power grid is, but odds are it's not gonna be that much better when the rest of the country gets their own unique climate disaster.
Maybe they're an especially egregious example because of how fucked up their power grid is, but odds are it's not gonna be that much better when the rest of the country gets their own unique climate disaster.
Most the the Country can handle winter. Texas is it's own special place of stupidity.
Now the heat, that'll cause brown outs.
The rockies saved us in california. However if the low pressure finds a way over the mounts we are fucked worse.
I don't even own shoes, cause I wear flip flops and shorts year round. No one cna drive in thr slight rain. Nothing is weatherized. We have no cold weather prep. Hardly anything has insulation despite the heat.
Every state hooked up to the national grid is weatherized. Texas is not. Cuz it's a state filled with independent big brains.
I am pictureing every single powerline snaping the seccond snow touches them personally. Least wise. Every building collapsing from the extra weight of a small ammount of snow. Yeah, we could still have power.
I am just picturing that none of the infrastructure to use it would stand a challenge that was never planned for. And back in the 70s when most thr stuff was built, could never have been planned for.
Dude get a grip you live in one of the most regulated states. One that sees snow every winter. One that has skyscrapers built to with stand vearthquakes. A state that sees gnarly wind storms on a seasonal basis.
Texas is a unregulated shit hole. This has happened several times before down there. This time it's just the longest.
I dunno, I mean. I am sure you are right.
However, I think in general we didn't expect to see climate change over whelm our infrastructure so soon. I know I didn't at least. So I feel we must use this data point and revise our predictions upwards sharply. As this is going to happen potentially every year going forward with increasing intensity
My mind is just absolutely blown by this situation
This has happened every decade since the 90s in Texas. It's a constant problem that they have been told to fix. And instead of fixing they just pulled their grid from the national grid.
But yeah the rest of the nation's infrastructure is a joke. Texas is just 3rd world joke level
Idk man, you should listen to a podcast called Ashes Ashes. They'll give you a pretty good idea what is coming for the climate issues. Wet-bulb temperatures are very fun, and as someone who generates a lot of heat personally, I already have a hard time in the summers already.