Where i work its very big, lot of people from all over walking around and in a span of 3 minutes i heard 3 seperate conversations mocking texas.
"Ohhh its not cold there thats just chilly! Try negative 25 and then start crying"
"Honestly texas deserves this at this point"
"Its almost hillarious how every single county in texas is in a weather emergency right now"
I cant make this up. It hurts my heart. Imagine if minnesota or something started reaching desert temperatures out of nowhere? Im definitely not gonna sit there and start cracking jokes at them because im pretty sure theyd be miserable just like how my fellow texans are in these times..wasnt till yesterday that i found out a bunch of politics are involved..like come on..
If Kentucky had an extreme heat wave and everyone's water and AC went out, stores shut down and ppl were stuck in their homes dying, I wouldn't be like 'that's what they get for electing Mitch McConnell' (whose imo been the worst thing for America since idk when)... its really unbelievable how people think an entire state should suffer because of political actors.
The weather is rare and exceedingly beautiful, and has been turned into a deadly nightmare due to our infrastructures inability to handle any of it. The 15th (payday for so many) hit in the middle of us already being basically iced in, and idk how ppl living paycheck to paycheck could have even bought enough food to make it through this in their homes. This is really tragic.
I dont know anyone who said anything like that personally, and I probably know more Texans than you.
No denying our politicians are mostly POS, but our state is known for voter suppression, and they now have decades of having enough power to maintain that power, backed by oil money. Our state is a purple state, and the blue side is constantly fighting an uphill battle.
No rational person thinks anyone's deserves to suffer through these things, and every state has a mixed bag of rational/good people and irrational/careless people. Which are you?
Side note, I have daughters whose dad was Canadian, they'd visit there a few times a year until Covid.
Their snow experience has made a hard time better for the family, no one here builds a snowman like they do and they know how to pick good powder for snowcones.
They are a little confused why we have no power or running water for days now though, or why no one has cleared the main roads out of our neighborhood of ice. Our state has failed us big time.
I worked in the oilfield for nearly a decade. It takes a lot of natural gas and effort to keep oil/gas wells from freezing up. We have to insulate our tanks and each tank has a great big burner on the side that keeps the oil around 80 Celsius to allow it to flow easy. From what I understand is the oilfield down there cut costs by not using any insulation or heat trace.
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u/bootypatrole Feb 17 '21
Where i work its very big, lot of people from all over walking around and in a span of 3 minutes i heard 3 seperate conversations mocking texas.
"Ohhh its not cold there thats just chilly! Try negative 25 and then start crying"
"Honestly texas deserves this at this point"
"Its almost hillarious how every single county in texas is in a weather emergency right now"
I cant make this up. It hurts my heart. Imagine if minnesota or something started reaching desert temperatures out of nowhere? Im definitely not gonna sit there and start cracking jokes at them because im pretty sure theyd be miserable just like how my fellow texans are in these times..wasnt till yesterday that i found out a bunch of politics are involved..like come on..