Haha, take that Texas. Keep voting those idiots into office that don't really give a sh!t about you. They should have learned two years ago (and so should have the voters) from the last incident.

Not a GD thing has changed since then.

Enjoy your rustic living.

As much as I dislike Abbott and Co, this problem is due to power lines being down and the COA not being able to keep up. They city council and CoA utilities are to blame here

If the people who ran Texas cared as much about the power grid as they do about making guns more available, you folks might have electricity during times like this.

Whoa there! Texas is a diverse state and has more to offer than just gun fetishism.

There's also trans omniphobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, anti-intellectualism, and good 'ol fashioned racism.

All these comments are from people that have never had a major multi-day ice storm evert where they live.

Almost as if a state that chooses to disconnect from the national power grid and not adequately tax to support its shitty state only power grid is a state wide issue. Of which governor and legislature is chief to blame

Texas is a real shit hole

The sooner Austin Powers back up, the better.

One week huh? ( moves goal post back). Try again next week.

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Problems that only happen in Texas right

Do you know what's really cool about living in Texas? Your furnace.

We don’t take kindly to ur kind round here. Now get ya hear!

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also, it's a metal dick that murders

Oh we have them, our power grid just isn’t so shitty that we can’t consistently withstand them. Texans are forever voting against their better interests though 🤷‍♂️

There's not much you can do about the damage from ice storms. Even if you bury the lines, if a tree falls over near the line it can pull up and break the lines. When they are underground, they are even harder to repair.

What do you propose that they do differently?

Your tax dollars at work! Remember these cold nights when the next election rolls around.

Not my job but maybe have a chat with Minnesota or Wisconsin. Any place that doesn't lose all power in the winter, like what seems to happen in TX again and again. Maybe better maintain what they currently have - trim trees near the lines etc. I'm pretty sure they have people they pay to solve these issues. But like I said, it's up to them to focus on this issue rather than making sure guns have more rights than women and ensuring everyone is safe from the menace that is anything non-christian and straight. Making improvements in their power grid isn't what I hear from TX leaders these days... except when the power is out.

In places with a lot of snow, the trees get knocked down before they get bad. They also tend to get snow versus ice, which is a completely different ballgame with trees. The snow tends to fall off trees with the wind. Not so with ice.

I'm in ATL. All we get is ice. Trim trees near power lines. Sometimes trees or limbs fall on lines and you have repairs. I thought TX also had overloads aka we haven't built enough new infrastructure to handle our expanding needs. This isnt an unsolvable riddle. They ignored the problem.